951 private quotes tagged war

“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.” — Thomas Merton

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“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” — Omar N. Bradley

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“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.” — Charles Wilson

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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush

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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.” — Kin Hubbard

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“There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.” — Leon Trotsky

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“To secure peace is to prepare for war.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.” — John Paul Jones

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“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.” — Ulysses S. Grant

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“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.” — Benito Mussolini

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“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” — George Herbert

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“As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.” — Yasser Arafat

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