Bernard Kouchner Quotes

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

Those who prepare for war get it.

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

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

War is the science of destruction.

There will be plenty of fighting in the coming years and in a magnitude far beyond this. Prepare yourself.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

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

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

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

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.