Shimon Peres Quotes

War is the supreme form of prestige.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Power politics is another name for the law of the jungle.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

Force in today's world, just as in the past, is what determines rights.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.