Giles Duley Quotes

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

True wars are never won.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

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.

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

There is no good war.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.