Asne Seierstad Quotes

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

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.

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

War is failure of diplomacy.

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

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

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

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Sweet is war to those who know it not.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

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.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.