Karl Popper Quotes

Peace and stability cannot be achieved by means of nuclear weapons.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

Disarmament requires trust.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Let him who desires peace prepare for 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 world must not reward aggression.

Great armaments lead inevitably to war.

The distinction between preparations made with the intention of going to war and preparations against attack is it true distinction, clear and definite than the mind of those who build up armaments. But it is a distinction that is not obvious or certain to others. The moral is obvious: it is that that armaments lead inevitably to war.

Peace is not just a matter of the absence of violence. It is also necessarily about removing the potential for violence – namely the uncontrolled possession of weapons. It would be naive to believe that anybody can be at ease when it is known that a potential opponent is stockpiling arms, even if the latter swears on whatever he or she believes, that the weapons will not be used. Weapons are meant to be used and pretexts will eventually be found for their use at some point or the other.

We want a rocket-free country. That’s what we want.

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.