Nikita Khrushchev Quotes

What’s so civil about war anyway?

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

War should be the last resort, not the first response.

Lincoln was very wise about the Mexican War. He waited until the war was over until he criticized it.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

Deterrence is a strategy for combining two competing goals: Countering an enemy and avoiding war.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.