951 private quotes tagged war

“War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.” — Ross Perot

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“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.” — Albert Pike

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“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.” — Mao Zedong

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“Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.” — Jon Meacham

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“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.” — Jeane Kirkpatrick

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“After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.” — Bob Woodward

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“We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.” — Lech Walesa

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“Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.” — Gerry Adams

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“A bad peace is even worse than war.” — Tacitus

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“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.” — Thomas Hardy

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“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” — Stefan Zweig

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“Peace is produced by war.” — Pierre Corneille

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“The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.” — George McGovern

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“What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.” — Imelda Marcos

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“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Making peace is harder than making war.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.” — Jimmy Carter

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“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.” — Maxine Waters

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“My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.” — Roberto Cavalli

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“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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