Quotes About Peace

It's not a graveyard, Mr Watson, it's a cemetery.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a 'case', obscuring the opponent's point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

To write books you need not only comfort and solitude—and solitude is never easy to attain in a working-class home—you also need piece of mind. You can't settle in to anything, you can't command the spirit of hope in which anything has got to be created, with that dull evil cloud of unemployment hanging over you.

George Orwell

If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow overcome the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.

If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?… I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and…toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.

Una paz que fuera de verdad permanente sería lo mismo que una guerra permanente. Este es el sentido verdadero de la consigna del Partido: la guerra es la paz.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary

La guerra es paz, la libertad es esclavitud, la ignorancia es la fuerza

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell

The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men practice violence on their behalf.

Dickens hardly writes of war, even to denounce it.

The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep. During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots;

It was bliss, it was eternity