Ramsay MacDonald Quotes

Violence and war lead only to death.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

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.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

True wars are never won.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.