Bruce Cockburn Quotes

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

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?

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.