Arseniy Yatsenyuk Quotes

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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

This terrible scourge of mankind, worse than famine or pestilence, ought not to be resorted to until every reasonable expedient has been adopted to avert it. When aggressions have been committed by the sovereign or representatives of the will of a nation, negotiation ought in all cases to be first tried, unless the rights of self-defense demand a contrary course.

Not only do wars create incredible suffering, but they engender deep hatreds that can last for generations.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

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

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

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

It's an important fact of life, war.

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

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

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

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.