Margaret Deland Quotes

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

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.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

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.

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

You can’t have peace without a war.

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

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

What’s so civil about war anyway?

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

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.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

War can protect; it cannot create.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!