Hannah Arendt Quotes

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

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

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

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

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

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.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

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

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

Great powers engage.