Victor Mikhailovich Chernov Quotes

Nothing can justify war.

Morality is contraband in war.

I think war should be illegal.

All wars are tragedies, but not all wars are sins.

It is very difficult to do one's duty. I was considered a barbarian because at the storming of the Praga, 7,000 people were killed. Europe says that I am a monster. I myself have read this in the papers, but I would have liked to talk to people about this and ask them: is it not better to finish a war with the death of 7,000 people rather than to drag it on and kill 100,000.

What is more immoral than war?

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

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

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

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

This will be a war of extermination.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

It is not possible to teach an entire generation to bomb and destroy others in an undeclared, unjustified war abroad without paying the price in the derangement of our own society.

We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations—acting individually or in concert—will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

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

Bombing Syria will achieve nothing.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.