Agatha Christie Quotes

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

War is not won by victory.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

True wars are never won.

So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the 1980s, and it is true today. You should know that I do not consider myself a pacifist; there are times, in my view, when military action may be necessary.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

There is no good war.

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

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.