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Quotes About Balance

The war existing between the senses and reason.
~ Blaise Pascal
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~ John Burroughs
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In war is it who's right, or who's left?
~ Kenneth Cole
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
~ Cyril Connolly
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace is obtained by war.
~ Cornelius Nepos
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
~ William Shakespeare
If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.
~ Robin Williams
Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
In love there are two evils: war and peace.
~ Horace
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
~ Ilka Chase
Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.
~ Joe Biden
The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.
~ Kuroda Nagamasa
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.
~ Lauren Groff
Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.
~ Max Brooks
The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.
~ Michael Hastings
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
~ Michel de Montaigne