Victor Borge Quotes

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

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

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

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.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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

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

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

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.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.