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Category: Peace and War

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1. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: History and Nations

2. "War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time."

Ian Hay, "The First Hundred Thousand"

3. "Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."

Hermann Göring, (radio broadcast)

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

4. "Morality is contraband in war."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

5. "A weapon is an enemy even to its owner."

Turkish proverb

Quotations about: Various

6. "War is like love, it always finds a way."

Bertolt Brecht, "Mother Courage and Her Children"

Quotations about: Love

7. "War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

8. "The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it."

Ellen Glasgow, "The Woman Within"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

9. "War is delightful to those who have not experienced it."

Erasmus

10. "Law stands mute in the midst of arms."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Pro Milone"

Quotations about: Law and Crime

11. "Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Italian Journey"

Quotations about: Happiness

12. "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

13. "Marriage is like a war. There are moments of chivalry and gallantry that attend the victorious advances and strategic retreats, the birth or death of children, the momentary conquest of loneliness, the sacrifice that ennobles him who makes it. But mostly there are the long dull sieges, the waiting, the terror and boredom. Women understand this better than men; they are better able to survive attrition."

Helen Hayes, "On Reflection"

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

14. "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."

Colin Powell

15. "So long as there are men there will be wars."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Human

16. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

17. "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Quotations about: Art and Culture

18. "A Terrorist is a man with a bomb but no aircraft to drop it from."

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Quotations about: Various -:- Good and Evil

19. "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Ferdinand Foch

Quotations about: Human -:- Power and Weakness

20. "It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."

Baudouin I, (Belgian King)

Quotations about: Human

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21. "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Happiness

22. "The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: History and Nations

23. "The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity."

George Grosz, "A Small Yes and a Big No"

Quotations about: Human

24. "If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows."

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

25. "When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Devil and the Good Lord"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

26. "Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

W. L. George

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Politics and Diplomacy

27. "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

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Power and Weakness

28. "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X, "Malcolm X Speaks"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

29. "I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year."

Maya Angelou, "Gather Together in My Name"

30. "The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."

Henry Kissinger

31. "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. "

E. B. White

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

32. "Peace puts forth her olive everywhere."

William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

33. "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"

Quotations about: History and Nations

34. "Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough."

Martin Amis, "Einstein’s Monsters"

Quotations about: Various

35. "Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Martin Amis, "Einstein’s Monsters"

36. "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"

37. "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

John Adams, "The Adams Family Correspondence"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude -:- Politics and Diplomacy

38. "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"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

39. "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

Jeannette Rankin

40. "Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace."

Amelia Earhart

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

41. "In time of war, the devil makes more room in hell."

German proverb

Quotations about: Good and Evil

42. "Politicians are the best alternative to warlords that we have yet conceived."

Stephen Covington

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

43. "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

44. "The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused."

Hermann Göring

Quotations about: Law and Crime

45. "A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

46. "Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."

John Buchan

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

47. "War is a crime which involves all other crimes."

Henry Brougham

Quotations about: Law and Crime

48. "War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."

Georges Clemenceau

49. "If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war."

Carrie Snow

Quotations about: Woman and Man

50. "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

Quotations about: Justice

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