Scott Ritter Quotes

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

We must take the profit out of war.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

Peacekeeping sometime requires killing to do the job properly..

I don’t oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots. Or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

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

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

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

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.