Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

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

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

We sit there because there is a war going on. But once we have peace we don’t want to be sitting on your Suez Canal.

All wars are mishandled.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.