Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

We must accept the possibility of bloodshed if we are to bring about order.

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

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.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

War among men defiles this world.

Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.