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war and peace
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Against war
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller
Arms or money?War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
Thucydides
Avoiding warThere is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli
BooksThis 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
Counter-positionsAll the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
Umberto Eco
Dress and warThe connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf
Ending WarIf we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells
FailureAll war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck
For a war to be justFor a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway
ForgivingCourageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
How to obtain peaceWe can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama
Ignorance and peaceWhere ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
In modern warIn modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
In modern warThey 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
InterventionIntervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
Nelson Mandela
It is a gameWar 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 Churchill
Making peaceIf you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
NonviolenceNonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
Nelson Mandela
PatriotsPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell
Peace is an armisticePeace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
Thucydides
Peaceful revolutionThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Poor people are the ones to dieWhen rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Preventing warWe can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
Virginia Woolf
Putting an end to warMankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Sheep and lionsI am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great
The end of warOnly the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
The history of the human race.I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
To be at warTo hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire
True peaceTrue peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We belong to each otherIf we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
Who is left!War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
