Harold Ramis Quotes

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

In Central America somebody is almost certainly standing around with a large pile of guns, [and] the killers tend to win.

Come now, and let us reason together or you shall be devoured by the sword.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

... a war always ends.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.

You weren't able to talk sense into him?" Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death." I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.