Rick Yancey Quotes

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

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

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

Like individuals, some peoples are naturally pacific and some naturally aggressive.

We don't want to fight, But, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men We've got the money too.