David Miscavige Quotes

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

Even if the sword is taken up in self-defense, it is a fearful choice. It should be undertaken only if God commands (D&C 98:33) and after ‘a standard of peace’ has been offered three times (98:34-38).

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

How do we stop ourselves from blowing each other up because we think that God wants us to blow each other up.

Treat all skirmishes like wars.

We are fighting in our own house. It is useless to live on burned ruins.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

B.B.C. Board. We discuss whether the clergy should use the microphone to preach forgiveness to our enemies. I say I prefer that to the clergy who seek to pretend that the bombing of Cologne was a Christian act. I wish the clergy would keep their mouths shut about the war. It is not of their business.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill

I am no Calvinist, but it seems to me neither right nor worthy of a Christian to seek, for the sake of differences between the doctrine of Calvin and the Confession of Augsburg, to have this land swarming with troops and inundated with blood.

I look to religion as a beehive. If you leave them alone they’re going to give you tons of their honey. But if you stick your head in there, you’re going to get stung bad.

How easily I could get rid of this and be at rest. I have only to ride along the lines and all will be over. But, it is our duty to live, for what will become of the women and children of the South if we are not here to support and protect them?'

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.