Famous Quotes About war

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

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

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.