Quotation Explorer - 'War'

A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes. - Semezdin Mehmedinović

War will not be able to bring peace—only love and forgiveness can do that. - Debasish Mridha

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence. - Stefan Molyneux

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.

Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war - Jeannette Rankin

The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life. - Simon S. Tam

I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting. - E.E. Cummings

War is young men dying and old men talking - Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war - Francis Collins

Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. - Jack Handey

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. - Mark Twain

If all of us make peace as a purpose of our life, how could there be war? - Debasish Mridha

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.

* , a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by - Sara Niles

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. - Abraham Lincoln

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. - H. L. Mencken

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation. - Duane Hewitt

Laws are silent in times of war. - Cicero

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3 - Erich Maria Remarque

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. - Napoleon Hill

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. - Aristotle

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers

War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life. - Joss Whedon

I was against the Iraq war I was against the Afghan war I was against bombing Libya and Syria but to be quite honest and with a heavy heart because more innocent people are gonna be killed....We have to step in and help wipeout ISIS! - Cal Sarwar

Strange how this war was making them all Americans. - Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? - Eleanor Roosevelt

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. - Spanish Proverb

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

War is a horribly fascinating thing. - Robert Sherrod

BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease - Octavia E. Butler

War is not nice. - Barbara Bush

War is progress, peace is stagnation - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective? - Jay Woodman

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again. - Suzanne Joinson

The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are. - Heraclitus

No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground. - Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. - Herbert Hoover

Going to war to establish peace will not bring peace. It will just kill you. - Debasish Mridha

More often than not others will project their own insecurities onto you when they are intimidated by your light. Don't listen to them, it's a reflection of the war they're battling within. - Nikki Rowe

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children. - Stefan Molyneux

Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign - José de Alencar

Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times. - Mamur Mustapha

To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun. - Debasish Mridha

People at war with themselves will always cause collateral damage in the lives of those around them. - John Mark Green

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. - Sir Francis Bacon

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. - Sir James Glover

Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood. - Terry Kay

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. - Herodotus

Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion. - Elie Wiesel

I think war is a crime. If you don't believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead. - Michael McCormick (Vietnam Veteran)

...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade. - James Henry Gooding

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. - E. B. White

[These]were the legitimate acts of self-defense which had been forced upon the Irish people by English aggression... We did not initiate the war, nor were we allowed to choose the battleground. - Michael Collins

Toward the end of the Second World War, anew consciousness arose amongst the publicand policy makers of the Western World. Afterten years of crippling economic depressionand another five at war, the public demandedsomething new from their disintegratingurban environments. - Lucas Mascotto-Carbone

If everyone fights with the power of their love, there will be happiness, not the destruction or war. - Debasish Mridha

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. - Todd Stocker

Women and children make you weak; get rid of them when you are in war. - M.F. Moonzajer

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde

On going to war over religion: You're basically killing each other to prove who's got the better imaginary friend.

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. - Mao Tse-Tung

Refusal to engage in spiritual warfare does not exempt you from being among the next casualties of war - Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. - Ludwig von Mises

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. - Nikola Tesla

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. - Alan Alda

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. - Albert Einstein

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know. - Millie

Word warfare is going on, which is not less destructive than any War. Words can be more destructive than any type of destructive weapons. Violence of any form starts in human mind and manifests in emotions, behaviors and finally in actions. - William Gomes

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

I don't care if it's Twilight or Fifty Shades or War and Peace; never let someone make you ashamed of what you love to read. - Rae Carson

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable. - Steve Maraboli

This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality. - Dave Eggers

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. - Siegfried Sassoon

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. - George Orwell

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. - John Steinbeck

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign. - Christina Engela

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. - Debasish Mridha

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind - Henrik Ibsen

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. - J.R.R. Tolkien

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory! - Mehmet Murat ildan

War is based on deception. - Sun-Tzu

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war. - Dr. Thomas Fuller

Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war. - Paul Beatty

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. - Jonathan Haidt

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. - Peggy Noonan

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets. - Tupac Shakur

So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego. - Kathy McClary

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. - Patrick Cockburn

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. - Omar Bradley

The war for peace can destroy the whole world. - Debasish Mridha

The first casualty when war comes is truth. - Hiram Johnson

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. - Sandra Day O'Connor

In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat. - Emily Thorne

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. - Louis Pasteur

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war. - Alice Walker

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. - Jeannette Rankin

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. I'm ready. My toaster will never be the boss of me. Get ready to make me some Pop-Tarts, bitch. - Chuck Klosterman

In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus

Sweet is war to those who know it not. - Pindar

A nation that is built on war will forever have conflict. - Victor Dunsin

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children - Howard Zinn

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace. - Debasish Mridha

Peace is not only the absence of war, but also a way of seeing the world, and the choices we make are how we express and manifest that vision of the world. - Max Strom

Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony. - Debasish Mridha

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home! - Marjane Satrapi

You are truly living when you have inner peace. You are far away from the beauty of life when you are fighting a war. - Debasish Mridha

Every war of ideas turns violent sooner or later. - Marty Rubin

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me. - Tahereh Mafi

The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him. - Mccann Colum

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch Spinoza

Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others. - Niccolo Machiavelli

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil. - Sheldon Richman

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden. - Walter Raleigh

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. - Alice Walker

I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. - Carl Sandburg

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. - Desiderius Erasmus

History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved. - Aysha Taryam

Your life is a war between what is right and what is evil. Everyday you have to make the choice to be beaten down by the devil, or stand on your feet for God. - Shannon L. Alder

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families. - Pythagoras

It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes... - Pat Robertson

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. - Dan Quayle

We may make contact with ambitious species on other planets or stars; soon thereafter there will be interplanetary war. Then, and only then, will we of this earth be one. - will and Ariel Durant

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

War has no winners and peace, no losers - Ashok Kallarakkal

A series of howls and war cries echoed through the camp....The werewolves and Japanese had attacked."-pg.353 Forbidden Nights with a Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks

No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers. - Viet Thanh Nguyen

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" ) - Erik Pevernagie

Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori

It took me a beat down to execute you Angel but the pleasure will be all mines! - Warden Pinnacle From the book Framed: The Second Book Of The Thousand Years War. - Angel Ramon Medina

He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious. - Asghar Abbas

For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony. - Debasish Mridha

War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause. - M.F. Moonzajer

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture. - Stanisław Lem

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models. - Bill Watterson

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire. - Linda Berdoll

It is easier to start a war than to end it. - Gabriel García Márquez

It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend. - Luis Marques

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. - Homer

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war. - Shannon L. Alder

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. - Norman Mailer

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. - Karl Kraus

When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side. - Marty Rubin

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Artemus Ward

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

Every war, no matter how brutal, is built on the premise that one day, when all is said and done, the ends will justify the means. But over and over again we learn that in real life, there is no ends. There’s just the means. All there is is means. - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. - Jimmy Carter

War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it. - R.A.Delmonico

As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. - Eugene B. Sledge

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them. - Dick Winters

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. - William S. Burroughs

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way - Will Rogers

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. - Denise Caruso

Remember, adjusting your mindset for success is, at least, half the battle of anything. In the case of overcoming our fear instead of it overcoming us – is more like 99% of a war waged in our head.~ - Connie Kerbs

Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity. - Jason Versey

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry. - Fred Hoyle

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.) - Robert Walser

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. - Hannah Arendt

War is an option of difficulties. - James Wolfe

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth. - Henry Ford

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. - Harrison Ford

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. - John Updike

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? - Dwight D. Eisenhower

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. - Jim

Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back. - Robert A. Taft

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. - Georges Clemenceau

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. - Demosthenes

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... - C. S. Lewis

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. - Simone Weil

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won. - Duop Chak Wuol

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls. - Paul Nash

War means fighting, and fighting means killing. - Nathan Bedford Forrest

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

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. - Debasish Mridha

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - William Shakespeare

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind;to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a blind. - Debasish Mridha

Love is the most powerful force on this world. You can't touch it but feel it. You can bind together the whole world with it, you can win the war with it. It is faster than light, sharper than laser knife. It is softer than puffer candy but can melt your heart. - Debasish Mridha

We always desire peace yet we prepare to go to war. - Debasish Mridha

In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free. Torn From the Inside Out - Sara Niles

Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan - Noormohammad Bhuayan

Even the most ambitious among us know to work from the shadows. We’re not interested in another war between Light and Dark. Not until the power balance has shifted, anyway. That’s where you come in. –Aedus Butler - Zechariah Barrett

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp. - Nevil Shute

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. - Steven Magee

Peace is not merely the absence of war or conflict but the presence of tranquility, harmony and love. - Debasish Mridha

Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war! - Brandon Mull

We’ve been put into war, between body and soul. 28.06.11 - VicDo

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. - Murray N. Rothbard

I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war... War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming. - Ulysses S. Grant

Make fun, not war. - Marty Rubin

Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say. - Shannon L. Alder

Either war is obsolete or men are. - R. Buckminster Fuller

War is what happens when language fails. - Margaret Atwood

Für einen Augenblick horchte er in den lautlos fallenden Schnee hinaus. Die Stille war vollkommen. Es war das Schweigen der Berge, das er so gut kannte und das doch immer noch imstande war, sein Herz mit Angst zu füllen. - Robert Seethaler

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James Baldwin

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game. - Amy Goodman

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. - Virginia Woolf

Between cold war and hot peace, our love got sterilized to death. - Natalya Vorobyova

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war - Orson Scott Card

Da ich nun einmal nicht imstande war, die Menschen vernünftiger zu machen, war ich lieber fern von ihnen glücklich. - Voltaire

War can't bring peace only understanding and love can do that. - Debasish Mridha

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war. - M.M. Kaye

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. - Richard Price

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die. - Herbert Hoover

I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war! - Muse

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace - Ulysses S. Grant

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin - Shinobu Ohtaka

Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier - oladosu feyikogbon

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. - Jay Leno

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. - Sun-tzu

Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win. - Sarah Brownlee

War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement. - Graeme Smith

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you. - William E. Peterson

So zu tun, als wäre man jemand anders, war eine tröstliche Form der Flucht, aber es bestand die Gefahr, dass der wahre Edward Manning unter all den Rollen nicht mehr zu erkennen war. - Lesley Pearse

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's - Thomas L. Friedman

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war? - Albert Einstein

Military's job is to win the war. The president's job is to win the peace. - John Kerry

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war - Charles de Gaulle

It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation. - Stefan Molyneux

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution. - Amit Kalantri

A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

We may win the war but not the soul; we may gain the power but not the peace. - Debasish Mridha

The holy war is warfare. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When our brains declare war on our very existence. - Jenny Lawson

Endless money forms the sinews of war. - Cicero

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. - Jean-Paul Sartre

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. - M. F. K. Fisher

There are no winners of war, only survivors and even they die inside from guilt. They only physically survive to warn us. To warn us that there is nothing more terrible than what they have done.

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. - Alephonsion Deng

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war. - William Shakespeare

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued. - Helen Keller

The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government). - Stefan Molyneux

I am a war president. - George W. Bush

The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action. - Stephen R. Brown

We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse-tung

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. - Dan Quayle

all nature is at war - Alphonse De Candolle

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists. - Maria Montessori

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. - William T. Sherman

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Artemus Ward

The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it. - Charles Manson

The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future - Stefan Molyneux

In love there are two evils: war and peace. - Horace

There’s no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it’s enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it’s the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade! - Marcus L. Lukusa

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying - David Mack

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. - Stefan Molyneux

How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism! - Howard Zinn

In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too. - Dan Abnett

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer. - John H. Arnold

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee

To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder. - Albert Einstein

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead. - Jay Samit

War is unlike life. It's a denial of everything you learn life is. And that's why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can't be bettered learned in civilian life. You are exposed to horrors you would sooner forget. - Robert Graff

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. - Sebastian Junger

War makes early risers of us all. - Julian Fellowes

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear. - Ursula Franklin

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

How is it possible to have a civil war? - George Carlin

On a basic level, he had seen first-hand how his government used the element of fear to accomplish its objectives; the same element of fear that had been used as an excuse to engage its huge war machine in conflicts for the profits of America’s oligarchy. - Kenneth Eade

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. - Thomas Hobbes

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. - Mark Twain

She gave thee beauty—blush of fire, That bids the flames of war retire! Woman! be fair, we must adore thee; Smile, and a world is weak before thee! - Anacreon - 485 BC

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. - Lierre Keith

I may have not done History in high school but War cannot be ended by endless talks, only Cold War. - Goitsemang Mvula

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn. - Adrian R. Lewis

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. - James Madison

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. - George Konrád

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. - Al Capone

...and in the long run, disease is more humane than war or starvation. My, isn't that gloomy?

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war. - Madeline Martin

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war. - Avril Lavigne

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Ernest Hemingway

Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield. - Rick Yancey

Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between. - Kota

I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be. - A. Zampolli

We make war that we may live in peace. - Aristotle

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war. - Shannon L. Alder

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy. - Darnell Lamont Walker

This life is ironic: for it takes pain to discover pleasure; it takes sadness to know happiness; it takes war to value peace; and it takes hatred to treasure love.[Culled from: "Amara & The Strange Elderly Woman"] - Emmanuel Aghado

The law of war is harsh. If there's anything good at all in a war, it's that it brings the best and the worst out of people: some people try to use the lawlessness to hurt others, and some try to reduce the suffering to minimum. - Mohamedou Ould Slahi

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. - Lois McMaster Bujold

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it. - Shannon L. Alder

...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened. - Vera Brittain

Boredom slays more of existence than war. - Norman Mailer

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive. - Muriel Rukeyser

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy

I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So close to the other side, so far from the wonder. I got one foot in the golden life, one foot in the gutter. So sick of the tug of war, that keeps pulling me under - 5 Seconds of Summer

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. - Robert Lynd

We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be! - Debasish Mridha

Orcs do not have enemies. Monde tried to search for the proper term, We have…adversaries.Isn’t that the same thing?Depends on who’s winning the war. - Sabrina Zbasnik

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

War is hell, and I mean to make it so.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists? - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee

I think war is a dangerous place. - George W. Bush

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. - Herodotus

Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change. - Dana Gore

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history. - Stephen Ambrose

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. - Alexis de Tocqueville

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace. - Arundhati Roy

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. - Balroop Singh

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon. - Darnell Lamont Walker

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. - Winston S. Churchill

Nobody returned alive from the war. - Andrija Jonić

Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy. - Debasish Mridha

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. - Woodrow Wilson

Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war. - http sheamagazine.com fiction-afterlife-chapter-24

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind. - Wendell Phillips

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. - James Baldwin

There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship. - Swami Dhyan Giten

In a war between evils, only evil wins. - Marty Rubin

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. - Kahlil Gibran

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults. - Karl Marlantes

No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country. - George S. Patton Jr.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won - Ronald Reagan

You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you a new way. - Will Rogers

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. - Agatha Christie

War is only a continuation of state policy by other means.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other. - Clifford Cohen

A bad peace is worse than war. - Tacitus

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war. - Bernard Kouchner

If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war? - Debasish Mridha

Let him who desires peace prepare for war. - Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.

Every time someone tries to prevent a war from beginning...people get killed. - Captain America - The Avengers...The Age of Ultron

Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can do this. It will make the world a better place for mankind. - Debasish Mridha

If the future generation has a difficult life, if they engage in war or commit crime it's not their fault, it's our fault because we fail to educate them. So responsibility resides on me, on us, to educate them in proper ways. - Debasish Mridha

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women. - Sarah Moss

Leprechauns are not twee beings dreamed up by the tourist board, but warriors of legend. That name comes from the Celtic god of commerce and war, Lugh. Their mission, their life’s work, is to protect the gold. What better way to hide it than to become a joke, a story nobody takes seriously? - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad

War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage. - Niccolo Machiavelli

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

All is fair in fashion and war. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war than threaten to steal a man's soul. - Christina Henriquez

Ego seeks the domination by war, but spirit seeks the peace through love. - Debasish Mridha

For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies. - Anthony Liccione

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us. - Ely Gulbertson

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace? - Noam Chomsky

Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack. - Andrea Gibson

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children - Pat Conroy

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is? - Debasish Mridha

War never can bring peace but a caring heart with love can do that. - Debasish Mridha

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. - George Orwell

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. - Stanisław Jerzy Lec

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh. - Tim O'Brien

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. - Benjamin Rush

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. - Havelock Ellis

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel. - David D. Flowers

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values. - Cesare Pavese

I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. - George Washington

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war. - Herbert Hoover

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace. - Henry Clay

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up. - Christopher Johnson

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man's soul. - Christina Henriquez

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war. - Helen Caldicott

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

War is like love; it always finds a way. - Bertolt Brecht

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved. - Margaret Thatcher

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. - George Lynch

From the quote of mine with knowledge of impacts:-Speed dupe the mind and visionSpeed maters in the war and love! - Alam Bakshi

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik - Chris Hedges

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means - Carl von Clausewitz

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate - Marvin Gaye

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind. - Debasish Mridha

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - John Andrew Holmes

At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace. - Victor Hugo

Sometimes war takes an arm, or an eye, or it takes two legs from us, but above all the war takes our belief in humanity away from us! - Mehmet Murat ildan

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world. - Sergei Lukyanenko

You need a team for war, not for negotiation. - Amit Kalantri

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. - Warren Buffett

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems - Siegfried Sassoon

Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours. - Sari Nusseibeh

The Major only glanced at the newspaper these days, tired of trying to comprehend a situation which defied comprehension, a war without battles or trenches. - J.G. Farrell

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate. - Richard H. Shultz Jr.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket. - Anthony Liccione

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. - Thomas Merton

It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart - Collen Hoover

They had long ago forsaken the war of newspapers for the one they carried everywhere with them, and which had no colors, no sides, and which could be fit neatly to any new opportunity that presented itself: ambush, pillage, torture. - Taylor Brown

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage - Noah Feldman

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . - Aristophanes

Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou En Lai

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. - Samuel Moyn

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. - Jane Addams

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. - William S. Burroughs

No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love. - Debasish Mridha

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared. - G.R. Gopinath

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to mankind.[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961] - John F. Kennedy

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of itRobert E. Lee - Greg Seeley

We need to win by the power of love, not by the destruction of war. - Debasish Mridha

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. - John Maynard Keynes

You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way. - Will Rogers

We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land. - Debasish Mridha

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. - Norman Mailer

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. - George W. Bush

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you. - Otto Von Bismarck

Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

If you lose one battle, don’t give up. Get up again, you have a war to win. - Sira Masetti

Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics. - Chandana Roy

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win - Robert A. Taft

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. - Otto von Bismarck

The opposite of war isnt peace its creation - Jonathan Larson

Ich weiß, wer ich war, als ich heute morgen aufstand, aber ich glaube, daß ich mich seitdem mehrfach verwandelt habe. - Lewis Carroll

What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'Then we haven't got sound government. - P.D. James

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above. - Sri Chinmoy

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers. - Erri De Luca

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.

One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace.My Spiritual Guides and I Le mie Guide Spirituali ed io - Adriano Bulla

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness. - Jason Mraz

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes. - Mary Horlock

Sie war ganz Frau, verlor sich an den Mann, der ihr Leben war, selbstvergessen, ohne daran zu denken, was aus ihr werden wurde - sie liebte wirklich. - Adelbert von Chamissoo

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose. - Michael Scott

Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war. - John F. Kennedy

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up. - James Baldwin

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. - William Shakespeare

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. - Toni Morrison

Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image. - Santosh Kalwar

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. - William Shakespeare

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. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. - Omar Nelson Bradley

The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me. - M.B. Dallocchio

War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great - Tim Clisch

Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same. - Warsan Shire

If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war. - Debasish Mridha

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. - Oscar Wilde

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" - Hunter S. Thompson

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. - Homer

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. - Gustave de Molinari

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace. - Robert F. Hartley

I'm supposed to a man who never blows his composureA boy trapped in a war, forced to be a soliderThe weight of the world just put on top of my shouldersBut if there's one thing I know for sureIt's that my mind has had its exposureAnd my emotional turmoil has finally had its closure - Tommy Tran

In war there is no substitute for victory. - General Douglas MacArthur

A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice. - Theodore Roosevelt

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies are proved untrueAnd I must face the men I slew.What tale shall serve me here amongMine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 - Rudyard Kipling

I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)] - Pierre Berton

During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. - Kurt Vonnegut

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. - Desiderius Erasmus

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Peace is better than war because conflict resolutions can be made without a wastage of life and resources. - Gugu Mona

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought. - Ernest Hemingway

This was fast becoming messy war with our hall now covered in foam and a puddle of green slime... - Andy Dale

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace. - Adriano Bulla

The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. - Jonathan Larson

Sometimes life is nothing more that a mere constant battle of tug and war between what's best for you and what makes you happy. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings. - Toba Beta

The day two girls or women can genuinely be friends to each other, we will see then no war, camouflaged or open, between the wife and her mother-in-law in any house. - Anuj Somany

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them. - Jack Handey

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble? - Colman McCarthy

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) - Jim Harrison

If we don't end war, war will end us. - H.G. Wells

I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side. - Aleksandra Layland

Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos. - Marianne Williamson

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till out political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich, - a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. - Stephen Johnson Field

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. - Niccolo Machiavelli

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes. - Tupac Shakur

Es war so, als würde ich ausatmen, nachdem ich viel zu lange die Luft angehalten hatte. - Amy Ewing

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war. - Debasish Mridha

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood. - Mao Tse-tung

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? - Eve Merriam

An unjust peace is better than a just war. - Cicero

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. - Pablo Picasso

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. - Sarah Vowell

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. - John Hersey

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other. - Thomas Carlyle

Human beings are born for peace; they like to grow up in peace. They like to raise their children in peace, and they like to say goodbye to this beautiful life in peace. Then why are we always preparing for war? - Debasish Mridha

War is too important to be left to the generals - Georges Clémenceau

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. - Abraham Flexner

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. - Sarah Palin

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider - PureDragonWolf

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights. - Paul Watson

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. - Chuck Palahniuk

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Er war jetzt ein Wesen der Wände und Zimmer, ein Sklave des Essens [...]. - T.C. Boyle

Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew. - Aaron Burdett

There isn’t a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children! - Mehmet Murat ildan

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war. - Hannah Fry

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

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your weapons of war and I will show you my Bible of peace! - Israelmore Ayivor

I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people. - Charles Manson

All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in the name of religion, is a complete contradiction. No pure religious leader would ever support this. - The Truth

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch. - Jillian Lauren

Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.

Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind? - Debasish Mridha

Only the dead has seen th end of war - Mirza Tabish

Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair. - Ronald Rolheiser

According to the standards of the Nuremburg Trials, every American president since World War II could be convicted as a war criminal and hung. - Noam Chomsky

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering. - Aysha Taryam

There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love. - Katja Michael

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. - H.G. Wells

Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. - Ulysses S. Grant

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood. - Tom Hanks

I have watched a lot of films... about war... but still I can't understand what's the purpose of war???Killing inocent people??About religion... so my god says that killing other people isn't acceptable... but your is acceptable???WTF - Deyth Banger

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily be enough to make us wish we’d died in battle instead. - Agnostic Zetetic

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. - Reinhold Niebuhr

If everyone empowers themselves with power of their love, there will be only happiness and no war. - Debasish Mridha

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. - Martin Luther King Jr.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty. - George F. Will

Zeit war so wertvoll, sie war das größte Geschenk, zu dem man fähig war. Jemandem seine Zeit zu schenken bedeutete, ihm einen Teil seiner Selbst zu widmen, den man nicht mehr zurücknehmen konnte. - Katharina Seck

No soldier ever really survives a war. - Audie Murphy

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them. - Alexander the Great

Panic bells, it's red alertThere's something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by - Nena

Since the advent of war many things have happened to him that he could not possibly have imagined. He wonders if this is one of the subliminal reasons men wage war. To increase the daily frequency of surprise and shock. The forerunners of revelation - Glenn Haybittle

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon. - Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm

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

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

War does not determine who is right — only who is left. - Anonymous

When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases. - Unotjari Festus Kavari

War is organized murder and nothing else - Harry Patch

She borrowed in harmony and paid back in war - Charmaine J Forde

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. - Ambrose Bierce

A woman in love with another woman is revolution’s revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love. - Anonymous

To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all—forgiveness. - Debasish Mridha

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.[Apology to the international anti-submarine committee for being absent from several meetings during World War I.] - Ernest Rutherford

What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home. - Joy Davidman

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Thnk things through-then follow through. - John C. Maxwell

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace. - Anthony Liccione

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. - Paul Rodriguez

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by. - Rosamunde Pilcher

Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends. - Evelyn Waugh

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that. - Debasish Mridha

There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war. - Warhammer 40 000 Source Book

War would end if the dead could return. - Stanley Baldwin

He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me something worth fighting for. Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said.Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head - Chris Martin

When we will learn to use the power of love to win the war, universal peace and happiness will be there. - Debasish Mridha

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything. - Frida Kahlo

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me! - Jon Stewart

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times. - Winston S. Churchill

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops. - Mehmet Murat ildan

Accursed be he that first invented war. - Christopher Marlowe

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. - Theodore Roosevelt

When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle. - Debasish Mridha

Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people's life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends. Human forgiveness will have limit. - Atif Iqbal Khan

There was a war between them, between love and the right thing to do, and it kept assaulting them, kept keeping them apart. - Keira D. Skye

The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty. - Paul Watson

I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner. - Debasish Mridha

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people. - Jon Stewart

Never think you can convince God through prayer for a blessing. Praying for prosperity is a wrong weapon for war. If prayer could bring money, all intercessors would be billionaires. - Apostle T. Vutabwashe

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. - William Faulkner

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. - Arnold Joseph Toynbee

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. - Winston S. Churchill

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true... - Thomas Paine

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it. - John Lennon

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. - Ambrose Bierce

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. - Sun-Tzu

War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace. - Herman Melville

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy - Machiavelli, Niccolo

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? - W.E.B. Du Bois

The war has put its skeleton fingers even into our pockets. (pg:40) - Virginia Woolf

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late. - Douglas MacArthur

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that. - Christopher Hitchens

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come. - Carl Sandburg

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. - Charles Darwin

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind. - Homer

War, war never changes. - Ron Perlman

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN - Widad Akreyi

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. - Audre Lorde

Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe. - Debasish Mridha

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. - Walter Benjamin

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. - Frank Herbert

And she called him a stranger. Whose name still echoed in her mind like a war cry. Who had seen each bit of her naked soul and knew how scarred her soul is. Whose reflection still stood, smiling at her every time she stood in front of the mirror. - Akshay Vasu