Emma Goldman Quotes

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

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?

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

War is the normal state of the people.

Violence and war lead only to death.

People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

I like war.