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Category: Peace and War

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1. "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

2. "Money is expensive during the war. Human life is more expensive. And time is the most expensive."

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Quotations about: Richness and Money -:- Time and Passing

3. "War is merely the continuation of policy by other means."

Carl von Clausewitz

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

4. "In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons."

Herodotus

Quotations about: Life and Death

5. "I believe in compulsory cannibalism... if people were forced to eat what they kill, we would have no more wars."

Abbie Hoffman

Quotations about: Good and Evil

6. "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."

James A. Garfield

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Authority, Government

7. "War will exist as long as there's a food chain."

P.J. O`Rourke

8. "Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals."

Ammon Hennessey

9. "When war is declared, truth is the first casualty."

Arthur Ponsonby

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

10. "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

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Sin and Conscience

11. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

Quotations about: Love -:- Power and Weakness

12. "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Moshe Dayan

13. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

Ambrose Bierce

Quotations about: History and Nations

14. "War makes thieves, and peace hangs them."

George Herbert

Quotations about: Law and Crime

15. "War is death's feast."

George Herbert

Quotations about: Life and Death

16. "A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

17. "Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others."

Thomas a Kempis

18. "Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God."

Steve Dow

Quotations about: God and Religion

19. "We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide."

Ramsay MacDonald

20. "This [the treaty signed at Versailles in 1919] is not a peace treaty, it is an armistice for twenty years."

Ferdinand Foch

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21. "Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Youth and Age

22. "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."

Georges Clemenceau

23. "The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."

gen. Omar Bradley

24. "The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."

Arthur Koestler, "Janus"

Quotations about: History and Nations

25. "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Mao Zedong

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

26. "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

27. "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."

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

Quotations about: Richness and Money

28. "Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

29. "If we don't end war, war will end us."

Herbert George Wells

30. "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Science and Technology

31. "In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left."

Winston Churchill

32. "History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been."

Joseph Stalin

33. "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

34. "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Thomas Mann

Quotations about: Question and Problem

35. "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."

Jesus Christ, Matthew 26:52

36. "I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

37. "Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Various

38. "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Various

39. "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

40. "God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Voltaire's Notebooks"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

41. "Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

42. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Albert Einstein

43. "There is no way to peace; peace is the way."

Mahatma Gandhi

44. "War is a defeat for humanity."

John Paul II

45. "We [Israel] have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative."

Golda Meir

Quotations about: History and Nations

46. "Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."

Guy de Maupassant

Quotations about: Authority, Government

47. "Peace begins with a smile."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

48. "Military men are the scourges of the world."

Guy de Maupassant

49. "War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost."

Karl Kraus

50. "There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

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