Colin Powell Quotes

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

Since war is everybody's tragedy, diplomacy is everybody's business.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Since the foolish part of mankind will make wars, from time to time, with each other, not having sense enough otherwise to settle their differences, it certainly becomes the wiser part, who cannot prevent these wars, to alleviate as much as possible the calamities attending them.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

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

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.