Quotes About War

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.