Ely Culbertson Quotes

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

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.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

There can be no compromise with war.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

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

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

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

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

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 may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

One war only breeds another.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.