Yoko Ono Quotes

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

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

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

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

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.