Bashir Assad Quotes

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

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

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

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

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

Violence and war lead only to death.

To me, you can't win. You can't win. There's a war in Iraq; there's no way that they're ending that. The war in Afghanistan is still going on. There's no way that's going to end anytime soon. You can complain about it, you can throw rocks at it, but you really have to come to the conclusion that this is a really twisted place sometimes and some stuff you're not going to win.

A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

War is death's feast.