Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

If you go to space, you'll look down and see no national boundaries. You'll never see the gods people are killing each other over, but they're incredibly real.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Peace is produced by war.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

A world without war is not in the cards.

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

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Peace is obtained by war.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

If mankind hated war, there would be millions of us and only two soldiers.

[Theodore Roosevelt] came down here [Washington DC] looking for war. He did not care whom we fought as long as there was a scrap.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.