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Preventing War Quotes

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Otto von Bismarck quote: "Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death."
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. Otto von Bismarck
Maria Montessori quote: "Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace..."
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. Maria Montessori
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. Ron Paul
As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945. Joseph Rotblat
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. Wangari Maathai
For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur. Herman Kahn
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. Virginia Woolf
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. John W. Vessey, Jr.
Moshe Sharett quote: "I am against preventive war because it means measures by the..."
I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us. Moshe Sharett
John Randolph quote: "The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it."
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. John Randolph
War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to... George Orwell
War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. Omar N. Bradley

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