Greg Gutfeld Quotes

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

They should not be knocked down with a bludgeon. They should have their threats cut with a feather.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

We have to choose between dialogue and utter devastation.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

How is it that this debate has been twisted on its head, that somehow those that advocate peace and diplomacy are anti-American?

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.