Jackson Browne Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples

You can’t have peace without a war.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

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