Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

War is a specific product of civilization.

War is the science of destruction.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

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

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

It is hazardous to engage an enemy who longs rather for battle than for victory.

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.