Martin Luther Quotes

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Government by one man: He is called a lord if he inclines to a good and common end; a tyrant if he is inclined to pursue bad or merely personal ends.

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.