Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

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

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

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

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.

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

All wars are mishandled.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

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

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.