Raymond Aron Quotes

You can’t have peace without a war.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

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

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

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.

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.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

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

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

We are quite convinced, and we say this to the Palestinians, that violence is not going to solve the problem of Israel and the Middle East. We say that to the Israelis. We say it to the Palestinians.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

There can be no compromise with war.

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.