Mark Vonnegut Quotes

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

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.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.