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Quotes About Tension

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.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
~ Henry Van Dyke
A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.
~ John F. Kennedy
The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.
~ Paul P. Harris
War is what happens when language fails.
~ Margaret Atwood
The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.
~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
~ Joseph Stalin
War is not a thing one wants.
~ Hans Frank
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.
~ Albert Einstein
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
~ Robert Fisk
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
~ Georges Clemenceau
The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.
~ Joseph Williams
How is it possible to have a civil war?
~ George Carlin
Peace is more difficult than war.
~ Aristotle
Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Making war or rebellion is messy, like eating soup off a knife.
~ Edward Thomas
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
~ Golda Meir
The history of mankind is a history of war.
~ Mike Love
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
~ Sophocles
I knew how she felt, all jittered up inside and no place to put the aggravation.
~ Susan Crandall