Meir Dagan Quotes

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

It is a wide road that leads to the war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

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

War is the science of destruction.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

We are muddled into war.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

People who start wars never know exactly how they will turn out.