Philip K. Dick Quotes

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

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

What’s so civil about war anyway?

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

One war only breeds another.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

War among men defiles this world.