Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Joseph Joubert
1. "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
David Friedman
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Power and Weakness
2. "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X, "Malcolm X Speaks"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
3. "I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year."
Maya Angelou, "Gather Together in My Name"
4. "The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
Henry Kissinger
5. "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. "
E. B. White
Other categories: Family and Loneliness
6. "Peace puts forth her olive everywhere."
William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
7. "Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
George Orwell, "The Lion and the Unicorn"
Other categories: History and Nations
8. "Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough."
Martin Amis, "Einstein’s Monsters"
Other categories: Various
9. "Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."
Martin Amis, "Einstein’s Monsters"
10. "When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
Stefan Zweig, "Stellar Moments in Human History"
11. "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
John Adams, "The Adams Family Correspondence"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Politics and Diplomacy
12. "War is not a true adventure. It is a mere ersatz. Where ties are established, where problems are set, where creation is stimulated — there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Flight to Arras"
Other categories: Good and Evil
13. "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Jeannette Rankin
14. "Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace."
Amelia Earhart
Other categories: Bravery and Fear
15. "In time of war, the devil makes more room in hell."
German proverb
Other categories: Good and Evil
16. "Politicians are the best alternative to warlords that we have yet conceived."
Stephen Covington
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
17. "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity."
Dwight David Eisenhower
18. "The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused."
Hermann Göring
Other categories: Law and Crime
19. "A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
20. "Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
John Buchan
Other categories: Bravery and Fear
21. "War is a crime which involves all other crimes."
Henry Brougham
Other categories: Law and Crime
22. "War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau
23. "If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war."
Carrie Snow
Other categories: Woman and Man
24. "Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead."
gen. Omar Bradley
Other categories: Justice
25. "Money is expensive during the war. Human life is more expensive. And time is the most expensive."
Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov
Other categories: Richness and Money -:- Time and Passing
26. "War is merely the continuation of policy by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
27. "In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons."
Herodotus
Other categories: Life and Death
28. "I believe in compulsory cannibalism... if people were forced to eat what they kill, we would have no more wars."
Abbie Hoffman
Other categories: Good and Evil
29. "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
James A. Garfield
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Authority, Government
30. "War will exist as long as there's a food chain."
P.J. O`Rourke
31. "Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals."
Ammon Hennessey
32. "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty."
Arthur Ponsonby
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
33. "The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
gen. Omar Bradley
Other categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Sin and Conscience
34. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
Other categories: Love -:- Power and Weakness
35. "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
Moshe Dayan
36. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
Ambrose Bierce
Other categories: History and Nations
37. "War makes thieves, and peace hangs them."
George Herbert
Other categories: Law and Crime
38. "War is death's feast."
George Herbert
Other categories: Life and Death
39. "A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend."
Eric Hoffer
Other categories: Friendship and Hostility
40. "Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others."
Thomas a Kempis
41. "Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God."
Steve Dow
Other categories: God and Religion
42. "We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide."
Ramsay MacDonald
43. "This [the treaty signed at Versailles in 1919] is not a peace treaty, it is an armistice for twenty years."
Ferdinand Foch
44. "Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die."
Herbert Hoover
Other categories: Youth and Age
45. "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."
Georges Clemenceau
46. "The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
gen. Omar Bradley
47. "The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
Arthur Koestler, "Janus"
Other categories: History and Nations
48. "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
Mao Zedong
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
49. "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
50. "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Devil and the Good Lord"
Other categories: Richness and Money
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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