Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

War is murder ., The word “murderer” should be embroidered in red letters across the breast of every soldier. I will devote my life to fight this spirit of militarism.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

I am fed up with war and the clamor for war.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

The war the soldiers tried to stop.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Nothing can justify war.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.