Monica Crowley Quotes

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

War sometimes is a necessary instrument to bring clarity to a society.

When you go to war it is highly unlikely that it will end with a neat, tidy conclusion.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.