War Quotes

"True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice."

Jane Addams

"If you want peace, work for justice."

Pope Paul VI

"Peace in oneself, peace in the world."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Peace begins with a smile."

Mother Teresa

"Remembrance is a form of meeting."

Kahlil Gibran

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

"Peace is its own reward."

"You can't say civilization don't advance – in every war they kill you in a new way."

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

Barbara Tuchman

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities that even man will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

Thomas Edison

"A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer."

Novalis

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

Umberto Eco

"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

Albert Einstein

"War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war."

Leo Tolstoy

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

Cicero

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."

"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Desmond Tutu

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"

Pablo Casals

"The root of war is fear."

Thomas Merton

"My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses."

Alfred Nobel

"There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell

"War is organised murder, and nothing else."

Harry Patch

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"