Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

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!

What’s so civil about war anyway?

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

The root of war is fear.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

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.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

We make war that we may live in peace.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Like individuals, some peoples are naturally pacific and some naturally aggressive.

One active campaign, a smart action, and burning two or three their towns, will set everything to rights.

You can’t have peace without a war.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

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.