Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

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

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

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

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witnesses to human folly.

Security and peace are not cheap.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.