Alice Walker Quotes

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

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

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

Like individuals, some peoples are naturally pacific and some naturally aggressive.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

The South does not understand anything but the language of the gun.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

You can’t have peace without a war.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.