Quotes About War

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.

Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.