Bruce Sterling Quotes

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

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 think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

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

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

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.

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

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

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

All wars are mishandled.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

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

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.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

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