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Quotes About War

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I've got to see the Brexit process through. We've won the war but we must win the peace.
~ Nigel Farage
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
~ Jimmy Carter
My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.
~ Manfred Rommel
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
~ Paul Robeson
Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
~ Hilary Mantel
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
~ Saint Augustine
The Germans, a race eager for war.
~ Seneca the Younger
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
~ John Dos Passos
We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Peace might sell, but who's buying?
~ Joan Baez
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
~ James Glover
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
~ Saint Augustine
The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
~ Mary Deasy
Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The war is won, but the peace is not.
~ Albert Einstein
In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
~ Anthony Minghella
As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
~ Chris Crass
I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace
~ Thurston Moore
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
~ Daisaku Ikeda