D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

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

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

This Republic and Japan are approaching that point of contact which is war.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a good chance of eventually being fought.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

Great armaments lead inevitably to war.

It is not armaments that cause war, but war that causes armaments.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

All Europe Arming Europe Drifting to Disaster

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

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.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.

If he wants to fight, we can fight. I don't have any problem with him, but we can do it if he wants to.