Albert Einstein Quotes

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

The shortest way to peace is the most stupendous and unanimous preparation for war.

A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

Today nuclear weapons are a blunt instrument. Problems cannot be solved through bombs. They are of little use. We need logic.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.