I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

A siege is an act of war.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Morality is contraband in war.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.