Walker Percy Quotes

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your 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.

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.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

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

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

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.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

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

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

One war only breeds another.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.