Pearl S. Buck Quotes

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

My voice is still for war.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

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

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.

War is what happens when language fails.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

War is no more inevitable than the plague is inevitable. War is no more a part of human nature than the burning of witches is a human act.

I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.