Sam Harris Quotes

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

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

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

In great conflicts opportunities for peace are often missed and considerable and unnecessary violence follows.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

I'm just baffled in the 21st century we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a means to resolve issues.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

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

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.