Category War

Here are some quotes related to War along with their authors:

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu
“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” – Herbert Hoover
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky
“War is what happens when language fails.” – Margaret Atwood
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” – George S. Patton
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” – William Tecumseh Sherman
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.” – George Orwell
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” – Winston Churchill
“War is the ultimate tool of politics.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” – William Tecumseh Sherman
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeannette Rankin
“The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.” – William Westmoreland
“War is a defeat for humanity.” – Pope John Paul II
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.” – Mark Twain
“When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.” – Paul Valery
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu

Category Peace

Here are some quotes related to Peace along with their authors:

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
“The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.” – Arthur Powell Davies
“Love is the purest form of a soul at peace.” – Matthew Donnelly
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” – Desmond Tutu
“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” – Helen Keller
“When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” – Maha Ghosananda
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
“We will know peace the day we truly know ourselves.” – Maxime Lagacé
“World peace begins with inner peace.” – 14th Dalai Lama
“Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi
“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.” – Thomas a Kempis
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” – Robert Muller
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – 14th Dalai Lama
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” – Ronald Reagan
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” – C. S. Lewis
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” – Francis of Assisi
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” – Henry David Thoreau
“We make war that we may live in peace.” – Aristotle
“I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.” – Muhammad Ali
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” – Baruch Spinoza
“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.” – Carlos Santana
“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.
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” – Nelson Mandela
“The purpose of all wars, is peace.” – Saint Augustine
“You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.” – J. Donald Walters
“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.” – George Bernard Shaw
“I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.” – Charlie Chaplin