Margaret MacMillan Quotes

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

If mankind hated war, there would be millions of us and only two soldiers.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace.

There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force.

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

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Disarmament requires trust.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Nothing can justify war.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

We want peace, but not at any price.

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

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