T Bone Burnett Quotes

People always make war when they say they love peace.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

The English will never cut each other's throats to the extent that we desire.

I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

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

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

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

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.