--- title: "1 War Needed Quotes By Gwynne Dyer" description: "1 War Needed quotes by Gwynne Dyer. Plus more from Gwynne Dyer and more War Needed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26f/gwynne-dyer-29209_alliances_now-for-the-moment-we-are-safe-the-only_2157465.jpg" --- > [Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from imminent heart attack to a bad case of hangnail in fifteen years flat. We are very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/now-for-the-moment-we-are-safe-the-only-kind-of-international/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26f/gwynne-dyer-29209_alliances_now-for-the-moment-we-are-safe-the-only_2157465.jpg) ## More by Gwynne Dyer > [The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/the-military-profession-especially-is-the-long-established-great/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [ It doesn't matter what we think we are there \[in Afghanistan\] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/it-doesn-t-matter-what-we-think-we-are-there-in-afghanistan-for-it/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/there-is-a-point-of-no-return-after-which-warming-becomes-unstoppable/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/war-is-part-of-our-history-but-it-is-not-in-at-all-the-same-sense/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/the-real-requirement-if-we-are-to-avoid-runaway-global-warming-is/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/the-first-and-most-important-impact-of-climate-change-on-human/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [ The scientists are really scared. Their \[global warming\] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/the-scientists-are-really-scared-their-global-warming-observations/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [ But we are almost certainly going to miss our \[global warming\] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/but-we-are-almost-certainly-going-to-miss-our-global-warming-deadline/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/take-the-year-a-country-first-reaches-50-literacy-and-add-one-or-two/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/for-most-of-history-war-has-been-a-more-or-less-functional/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [ Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer \[in Afghanistan\]. I don't think… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/never-did-anyone-ever-stay-longer-than-ten-years-because-the/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/fiat-justitia-ruat-coelum-do-the-right-thing-even-if-the-heavens-fall/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [“What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/what-makes-the-arabs-suitable-candidates-for-democracy-is-their/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/now-for-the-moment-we-are-safe-the-only-kind-of-international/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) > [While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwynne-dyer/while-the-high-level-climate-talks-pursue-their-stately-progress/) [Gwynne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwynne-dyer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war-needed/gwynne-dyer/#itemlist", "name": "1 War Needed Quotes By Gwynne Dyer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Now, for the moment, we are safe. 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