Paul Virilio Quotes

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm's way.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms