Peace War Quotes

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

The absence of war is not peace.

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

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.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Any peace is better than any war

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

War makes rattling good history.

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

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

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

Peace is obtained by war.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

There are laws for peace as well as war.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.