Blaise Pascal Quotes

Borders cannot be redrawn in blood.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Do we really want a world in which every country feels entitled to attack any other that might someday threaten it?

Through the stupidity and ineptitude of old men in the chancellories of Europe, and there are still a lot of doddering old men over there in positions of power, along with a sorry lot of confirmend megalomaniacs, egomaniacs, and psychopaths, who are literally preparing to dip their hands in blood and drag the whole world into the frightful mess they are creating for themselves.

Every nation reserves the right to go to war with every other nation. Therefore, every ethnic group wants to be a nation.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.