Quotes About War

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.

No matter how tough Iraq became, removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do for the sake of peace and for the 25 million people we liberated.

Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.

We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace, ' 'A Farewell to Arms, ' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

Where they make a desert they call it peace.

Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.