Susan Griffin Quotes

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.