Richard Engel Quotes

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

Nothing can justify war.

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

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

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

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?

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

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'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.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

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

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

We want no war. We’ll have no war.

What is more immoral than war?

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.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

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

Morality is contraband in war.

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

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

We must take the profit out of war.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.