Peace and War

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other."

Elie Wiesel

Peace and War

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The great victories are never won in the first blow."

Johan Falkberget

Peace and War

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

Tony Benn

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice."

Lin Yutang

Freedom and Servitude

Justice

Peace and War

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Human

Peace and War

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"War is what happens when language fails."

Margaret Atwood

Peace and War

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks."

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Friendship and Hostility

Peace and War

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"War is sweet to them that know it not."

Erasmus

Peace and War

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

Erasmus

Justice

Peace and War

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."

George Marshall

Peace and War

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars."

George Marshall

Peace and War

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation."

Alexander Hamilton

Peace and War

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

Martin Luther King

Friendship and Hostility

Justice

Peace and War

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee

Peace and War

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"[...] politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Life and Death

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Too many died. War isn’t worth one life."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Life and Death

Peace and War

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"War is organized murder, and nothing else."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Law and Crime

Peace and War

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"My house is my castle."

English Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Peace and War

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it."

John Randolph

Courage and Fear

Peace and War

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting."

Sun Tzu

Peace and War

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"To secure peace is to prepare for war."

Carl von Clausewitz

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."

Martin Luther King

Peace and War

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

John Steinbeck "Once There Was A War"

Intellect, Judgement

Peace and War

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."

Jimmy Carter

Good and Evil

Peace and War

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Friendship and Hostility

Peace and War

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes."

Jawaharlal Nehru

Dreams and Desires

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is far easier to make war than to make peace."

Georges Clemenceau

Peace and War

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"There is no substitute for victory."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Peace and War

Success and Fame

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Life and Death

Peace and War

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war."

Sir James Glover

Courage and Fear

Human

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Any soldier worth his salt should be anti-war. And yet there are things still worth fighting for."

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

Peace and War

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Albert Einstein

History and Nations

Peace and War

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Peace and War

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Hermann Göring (radio broadcast)

Peace and War

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Morality is contraband in war."

Mahatma Gandhi "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Manners and Ethics

Peace and War

Rating: 7.17 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Turkish Proverbs

Peace and War

Various

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Bertolt Brecht "Mother Courage and Her Children"

Love

Peace and War

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Health and Alcohol

Peace and War

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ellen Glasgow "The Woman Within"

Joy and Sadness

Peace and War

Rating: 4.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Erasmus

Peace and War

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."

Marcus Tullius Cicero "Pro Milone"

Law and Crime

Peace and War

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Italian Journey"

Happiness

Peace and War

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Winston Churchill

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Marriage

Peace and War

Woman and Man

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."

Colin Powell

Peace and War

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Albert Einstein

Human

Peace and War

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Sun Tzu

Knowledge, Ignorance

Peace and War

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Art and Culture

Peace and War

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)