War Avoidance Quotes

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon shots.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

Negotiations in pain and frustration for 5 years is better than bullets for 5 minutes.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which, if acted on, would save one half the wars of the world.

The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to "loving and faithfully serving his country," at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting.

The greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water. Everyone in this country will say, oh, that's so great. That's not great. That's not great. I would love to be able to get along with Russia.

If war is so easily averted as all this it does seem a pity no P[rime] M[inister] except Neville Chamberlain] has thought of it before. Peace without Honour seems to be what we have got. I'm glad. One can't expect both.

Our plan was to have no Interest, Connection or Embarrassment in the Politicks or Wars of Europe, if we could avoid it.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Let us above all things avoid as much as possible entangling ourselves with their wars and politics … America has been the sport of European wars and politics long enough.

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

The way to win an atomic war is to make sure it never starts.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war