Antonio Gramsci Quotes

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

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

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

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

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

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

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

People who start wars never know exactly how they will turn out.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough