As human beings, we are always torn between individual…

“war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

A war put off is not a war avoided.

— Charlton Heston

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

— Vladimir Yakunin

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated…

— Charles Albert Gobat

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

— John Boyd Orr

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

— Noam Chomsky

“you ought never to suffer your designs to be crossed in order to avoid war, since war is not so to be avoided, but…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— Chief Joseph

Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally…

— Timothy Leary

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

— Samora Machel

“You have built for yourselves psychic suits of armor, and clad in them, your vision is restricted, your movements are clumsy and painful, your…

— Malaclypse the Younger

“At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.”

— Bryant McGill

I loved horror movies, and I loved movies like that - stuff with an anarchy to them, with chaos. Stuff that glorified violence and…

— Ken Marino

You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events,…

— Joe Walsh