Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

The root of war is fear.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

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

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

It is easier to obstruct peace than it is to promote it.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.