Salvador de Madariaga y Roho Quotes

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

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

The nexus between modern science and violence is obvious from the fact that 80 percent of all scientific research is devoted to the war industry and is frankly aimed at large-scale violence.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

Armament firms have been active in fomenting war scares and in persuading their own countries to increase their armaments.

It is a most pernicious and mischievous thing thus to arm these infidels, who might on occasion use these weapons against us.

All Europe Arming Europe Drifting to Disaster

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

War is the trade of Kings.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

The duration and severity of war has always increased with an increase in state power. Larger states, far from providing peace, merely provide larger wars, having more human and material resources to pour into them.

I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any domestic establishment.