Michael Scheuer Quotes

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

A world without war is not in the cards.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

I think war should be illegal.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.