Alfred Nobel Quotes

We will need ploughshares and swords.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Wars ruin armies.

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

War makes rattling good history; but peace is poor reading.

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.