Oswald Spengler Quotes

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

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

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

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

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

There is not a conceivable enemy unless we create it, not a nation that would fight us if it could.

Your power, which is already very great, you can increase more by peace than by war. For the outcome of war is uncertain. More often you see adversity rather than prosperity accompany it.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.