Benito Mussolini Quotes

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

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.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Since the start of the Abe administration, we resumed peace treaty negotiations with Russia, which had lapsed during the three years of the Democratic Party of Japan administration.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

If Western civilization is to be saved from another relapse into the Dark Ages, it must be saved at the peace table.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

You really can’t blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They’ve got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

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

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

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.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.