Peter Kropotkin Quotes

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.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.