Quotes About Tension

If you wish for peace, understand war.

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

We still seek no wider war.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

Defense is the first act of war.

Peace is obtained by war.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

I am a war president.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace