Quotation Library
Peace & War
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Peace begins with a smile.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
War does not determine who is right—only who is left.
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
War is what happens when language fails.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
War is hell.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it.
Peace is always beautiful.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched… signifies a theft from those who hunger.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
War is a series of catastrophes that result in a victory.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease.