Peace War Quotes

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation.

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

I have seen their backs before.

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.

Peace has its price: your head and heart; less than that is war.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

The war is won, but the peace is not.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

We know from history that the way wars are concluded is absolutely the key to whether or not there is any peace to be kept.

Today is a good day for war to end.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Every soldier is an enemy.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.