Lester B. Pearson Quotes

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

You have wasted six hundred millions of treasure. You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives—the flower of our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

Children aren't responsible for wars.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Europe cannot survive another world war.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.