Aldous Huxley Quotes

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.