Martin Van Creveld Quotes

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless 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?

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

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.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

I think war should be illegal.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

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.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.