war Quotes

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all... ...

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Peace is more difficult than war.

We fight wars so that we can live in peace.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and... ...

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.