F. Murray Abraham Quotes

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

Diplomacy, when matched by force, can achieve our objectives.

We sit there because there is a war going on. But once we have peace we don’t want to be sitting on your Suez Canal.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

Do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

For sure, there are times when one may have no choice but to go to war, but it is never something to rush to or accept without exploring every other available option.

I will return when I feel safe there, when negotiations start, when political prisoners are released. Those will be the signs for me to come back safely.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Disarmament requires trust.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

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.