Norman Angell Quotes

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

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

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

We shall never war except for peace.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

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

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

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

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.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.