Joan Baez Quotes

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

I believe that everyone has it in them to kill another person. In desperation, or hatred, or at least to defend themselves.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

I like war.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.