Paul Virilio Quotes

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

On whatever side we regard the history of Europe, we shall perceive it to be a tissue of crimes, follies, and misfortunes, of politics without design, and wars without consequence.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

We are muddled into war.

In the face of war, politics are adjourned.

Coups are chaotic.

War sometimes is a necessary instrument to bring clarity to a society.

War is never a good environment in which to run.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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.

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

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

It's an important fact of life, war.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.