Muhammad Ali Quotes

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

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.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

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

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.