Quotes About War

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

We make war that we may live in peace.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

They make a desolation and call it peace.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.