Bashir Assad Quotes

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Violence and war lead only to death.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad 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.

Killing more people won't help matters.

You can’t have peace without a war.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

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

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

True wars are never won.

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.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.