Aldous Huxley Quotes

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

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

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

Our ancestors have bred pugnacity into our bone and marrow, and thousands of years of peace won't breed it out of us.

You can’t have peace without a war.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.

In high school and college, I gathered a number of medals for marksmanship, but I have long since abandoned this activity, having concluded that the world would be a better place with fewer sharpshooters.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

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.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.