Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

Are we going to start a war, the end of which we cannot see?

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force.

It's not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

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

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

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.