Colman McCarthy Quotes

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

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

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

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

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war

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.

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

Children aren't responsible for wars.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.