Ken Wilber Quotes

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

Every war has turning points and every person too.

I'm in a war, a cultural war.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

Go back,” he said. “Can’t. Stand aside?” “Can’t.” “So it’s like that?” I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. “Yeah.” And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.