Dennis Kucinich Quotes

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

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

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

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

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.