Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

The first accounts we have of mankind are but so many accounts of their butcheries. All empires have been cemented in blood; and, in those early periods, when the race of mankind began first to form themselves into parties and combinations, the first effect of the combination, and indeed the end for which it seems purposely formed, and best calculated, was their mutual destruction.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

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

War is the most powerful narcotic ever invented by humankind. The more you seek it out the more powerful it becomes.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

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

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

I know I am among civilized men because they are fighting so savagely.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

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.

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

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

War is the science of destruction.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.