Quotes About War

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.