Quotes About Resolution

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

Peace is produced by war.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

There's no war that will end all wars.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.