Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo Quotes

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Nations drift into wars.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.