Robert Kennedy Quotes

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

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

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

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

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

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.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

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

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

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?

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.

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

We make war that we may live in peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.