Suzanne Collins Quotes

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

What’s so civil about war anyway?

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

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

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

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

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

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.

You can’t have peace without a war.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

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

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.