Colin Powell Quotes

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's]. And if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him, in the name of peace.

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

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

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

This will be a war of extermination.

I am fed up with war and the clamor for war.

There is not a conceivable enemy unless we create it, not a nation that would fight us if it could.

There seems no reason to doubt that such real approval as the Charter has among the people is based upon the belief that if the Charter is put into effect, wars will end... The Charter will not certainly end war. Some will ask - why not? In the first place, there is no provision in the Charter itself that contemplates ending war. It is true the Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war... It is true the Charter is built to prepare for war, not to promote peace... The Charter is a war document, not a peace document. Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we will have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.

You can’t have peace without a war.

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.