Jaron Lanier Quotes

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

All conflicts can be resolved. Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them. Peace is a question of will.

War is no more inevitable than the plague is inevitable. War is no more a part of human nature than the burning of witches is a human act.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

The root of war is fear.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do.

It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.