Immanuel Kant Quotes

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

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

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

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

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

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

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

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.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war

One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.

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

What is more immoral than war?

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

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

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

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

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.