Octavia E. Butler Quotes

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

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

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

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.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

One would think that man would run out of wars.