Ogden Nash Quotes

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.

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 want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

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

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

In great conflicts opportunities for peace are often missed and considerable and unnecessary violence follows.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

If everlasting peace be impossible between us, let us at all events make a treaty for as long a term as possible, and put off our private differences to another day.

… in a tense situation, if time could be given for everyone to discuss what was going on before they actually went to war, we might come to our senses. Most of us are taught as children to count to 30 before we open our mouths when we were angry, and that same lesson should apply to nations.

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.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.