Ronan Farrow Quotes

Douglas, Douglas, you would make Neville Chamberlain look like a warmonger

War is always an option. Peace is not.

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

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them.

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.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

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

You help us pay for the war we’ll fight; we’ll launch it while you’re asleep at night. We don’t need friends all around the world; We’ll buy our friends with our flag unfurled, And spread our arms on a global scale To show the world that we still prevail. Oh, we’re not leaders inspiring peace, But we’re in power as the world’s police. So pay your tax for our little war, And we’ll not ask for any more. This year!

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Wars are ... often the product of the conflicting intentions of decent men who have lost the patience to negotiate.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.