George Monbiot Quotes

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.

When adults wage war, children perish.

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

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Every war I have ever covered – Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Liberia – withstood all diplomatic efforts to end it until Western military action finally forced a resolution.

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

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

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.