Nancy Astor Quotes

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

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.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

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.

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

There can be no compromise with war.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

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.

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

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

War is failure of diplomacy.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.