William Saroyan Quotes

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.

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

How do we stop ourselves from blowing each other up because we think that God wants us to blow each other up.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

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

A world without war is not in the cards.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

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

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.

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.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

I want to work for peace, not for war.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Nothing can justify war.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.