Margaret Deland Quotes

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Your case for war was a pack of lies.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

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.

You can’t have peace without a war.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.