Quotes by Lester B. Pearson about War

Lester B. Pearson Canadian politician

And I have lived since as you have in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war