Tzipi Livni Quotes

War is not a thing one wants.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

War is an abstraction.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

War is a last and terrible defense of even a righteous cause, and sets at defiance all the ordinary laws and customs of society.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

I don't like wars. Any wars.

War is the science of destruction.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

War is not an academic exercise.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

We are muddled into war.