The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.