Curt Siodmak Quotes

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

We make war that we may live in peace.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

In the Middle East, a nation whose youngsters are not willing to kill and get killed for it is a nation on borrowed time. It will not last long.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.

When men cease to fight — they cease to be — Men

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt you—” “They didn’t,” I said firmly. I refused to let him know how scared I’d been because I was afraid he might go after them. “I’m fine. You came to the rescue.” A smile played at his lips. “Something tells me you would’ve rescued yourself.” And like that, the smile vanished. “But spirit would’ve been a lot more effective than a branch.” “Your treejitsu was very effective.

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.

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

Don’t let them see you weak.

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.

War knows no law except that of might.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.