Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes

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

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is against surgery even when the alternative is the crippling or death of the patient.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

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

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

It's an important fact of life, war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

We make war that we may live in peace.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.