Trygve Lie Quotes

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

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.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

This is an era of violent peace.

Although the war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

The Cold War is Over

In order to function, the United States needs an enemy.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

Word War III is about to start and we cannot change the position on Vietnam.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

A stable world may be one in which the United States can act to secure peace without fear of a nuclear attack.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.