Joichi Ito Quotes

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

You can’t negotiate with them. You can’t buy them off. They want a change of the world. The only way to defeat the Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists is to persuade them to abandon their effort…. It must be an intellectual victory.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

If you seek peace, we do not want War. But if you want War, we will accept it unhesitatingly.

Realizing that common sense and common decency alike dictate the futility of appeasement, we shall never try to placate an aggressor by the false and wicked bargain of trading honor for security.

All extremists derive from one pool. This extreme mind-set is nurtured by religious rhetoric that needs to be reformed.

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

Those who think that through concessions they will gain respect and peace are wrong. It's the other way around; it will lead to more wars.

When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.

I believe in peace through strength.

I can't force a guy to fight.

When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.

Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.

Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.