Ian Rankin Quotes

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

To Perpetual Peace

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

You can’t have peace without a war.

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

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

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

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

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

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

War can protect; it cannot create.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

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

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.