Saul Bellow Quotes

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

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 has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.