Emma Goldman Quotes

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

The normal state of mankind is war and peace is an aberration.

The Commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription, "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.

We will need ploughshares and swords.

The enemies of peace have not disappeared.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong. It's the other way around; it will lead to more wars.

You can’t have peace without a war.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

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.