Ludwig von Mises Quotes

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

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

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

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

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.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

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

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

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.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Today the scale and horror of modern warfare, whether nuclear or not, makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past—to history. It should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

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