Edward Teller Quotes

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

Wars are often the cause of further wars because they fuel deep hatreds, create situations of injustice, and trample upon people's dignity and rights. Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile. War is a defeat for humanity. Only in peace and through peace can respect for human dignity and its inalienable rights be guaranteed... .

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

Every war has its demons.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

The Iraqis, because they had become so tired of war, they were very peaceful and easy to work with. But the Syrian children—–the boys—–they have this idea, "We have to go back to Syria to fight": They hear this constantly from their fathers—–you're going to be a soldier and go back to Syria—–so they're little rebels, not little kids. It's all about ... how they need to go back and avenge what happened.

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.

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 makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

It's an important fact of life, war.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.