William James Quotes

In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

There can be no compromise with war.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.