Chinua Achebe Quotes

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Peace is produced by war.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

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.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.