Joseph Heller Quotes

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

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.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

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.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

We make war that we may live in peace.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.