Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

We shall never war except for peace.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

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

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.