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

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Law is always better than war.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

History should be written as philosophy.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

A siege is an act of war.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.