best quotations about
War & Peace |
| 181 quotes | Visits: 30,601 |
Quotations
 | Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 65 likes |
 | For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator (speech before the Reichstag, 4 May 1941) 62 likes |
 | The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 27 likes |
 | Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 26 likes |
 | This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal (on the Treaty of Versailles) 23 likes |
 | When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 19 likes |
 | When the rich make war, it's the poor that die. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 19 likes |
 | If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 17 likes |
 | The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 16 likes |
 | Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 15 likes |
| Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 14 likes |
 | Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 14 likes |
| The god of war has gone over to the other side. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator (after Stalingrad) 14 likes |
| My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal (message to Marshal Joseph Joffre during the 1st Battle of the Marne, Sep 1914) 14 likes |
 | The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 13 likes |
| One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor (prediction of 1888) 11 likes |
| All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are nea — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 11 likes |
| The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 10 likes |
 | Disarmament is the ideal of socialism. There will be no wars in socialist society. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 10 likes |
| The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 10 likes |
 | They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 10 likes |
| Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (about the pilots in the Battle of Britain, 1940) 9 likes |
| All warfare is based on deception. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 9 likes |
| What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 9 likes |
| The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 9 likes |
 | It is easier to make war than make peace. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 9 likes |
 | Only the dead have seen the end of war. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 9 likes |
 | No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president (last war, then, was WW I) 9 likes |
| We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall f — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 9 likes |
 | There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
| War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 8 likes |
| It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 8 likes |
 | Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 8 likes |
 | It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 8 likes |
 | The only way to win World War III is to prevent it. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 8 likes |
 | War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 8 likes |
 | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 7 likes |
 | Imperialism and terrorism are two dinosaurs that will be confronted in the near future with tragic consequences for humanity. — Mikis Theodorakis, 1925-2021, Greek composer & politician (statement after 9/11) 7 likes |
 | We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 7 likes |
 | France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 7 likes |
 | Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 7 likes |
 | On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 7 likes |
| France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 6 likes |
| To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 6 likes |
| So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 6 likes |
| The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 6 likes |
| War is the business of barbarians. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 6 likes |
| Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (referring to the victory over the Germans at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt, in 1942) 6 likes |
 | Real men despise battle, but will never run from it. — George Washington, 1732-1799, the first American President 6 likes |
 | But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies – or the coalition's forces – with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all? — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 6 likes |
 | Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 6 likes |
 | Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 6 likes |
 | Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. — William Prescott, 1726-1795, American colonel 5 likes |
 | Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. — Donald Rumsfeld, American politician 5 likes |
| An army marches on its stomach. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
| Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
| War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
| Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 (to Neville Chamberlain after the Munich accords, 1938) 5 likes |
| Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 5 likes |
 | There never was a good war or a bad peace. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 5 likes |
| As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 5 likes |
| Thucydides, in a sentence that explains much history: “The Peloponnesus and Athens were both full of young men whose inexperience made them eager to take up arms.” — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes |
| When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 5 likes |
| There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 5 likes |
| The absence of war is not peace. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 5 likes |
| On s'engage et puis on voit. We encage and then we see. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor (in battle) 5 likes |
 | Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman (he was the first to use the term “cold war”) 5 likes |
 | That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 5 likes |
 | War, as we know, was for a long time the surest and fastest vehicle of civilization. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 5 likes |
 | War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
| In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
| In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
| Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 4 likes |
| It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer (from “Homage to Catalonia”, 1938) 4 likes |
 | Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 4 likes |
 | Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
| It is war that makes the chief, the king and the state, just as it is these that make war. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 4 likes |
| Property was the mother, war was the father, of the state. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 4 likes |
 | We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 4 likes |
| Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 4 likes |
| One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 4 likes |
| When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
| The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | Cry “Havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Julius Caesar 4 likes |
| The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 4 likes |
 | War is the continuation of politics by other means. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 3 likes |
 | It’s not right to make war to get rid of the war. — Jean Jaures, 1859-1914, French Socialist leader 3 likes |
| In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 3 likes |
 | A nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 3 likes |
| War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 3 likes |
| My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | War is the trade of Kings. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 3 likes |
| I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President (on Vietnam War) 3 likes |
| You just can't have this kind of war. There aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President (speaking about nuclear war) 3 likes |
| The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 3 likes |
 | War is young men dying and old men talking. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 3 likes |
 | Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 3 likes |
 | For war to disappear, men would have to become either cowards or wise. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 3 likes |
 | War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 3 likes |
 | War in the castles, peace in the huts. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer (one of the slogans of the French Revolution) 3 likes |
 | Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 3 likes |
| In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 2 likes |
| The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
| We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
| There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 2 likes |
 | War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 2 likes |
| The Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once... for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only put off to the advantage of others. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 2 likes |
| The unknown is the governing principle of war. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 2 likes |
| In war there is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 2 likes |
 | It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 2 likes |
 | War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
| 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, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes |
 | The only guarantee of a long peace between two states is mutual impotence to harm one another. — Duc de Levis, 1764-1830, French politician & author of maxims 2 likes |
 | War should neither be feared nor provoked. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 2 likes |
| War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 2 likes |
 | War will exist as long as there's a food chain. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 2 likes |
 | There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 2 likes |
 | War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 1 likes |
| In war, more than anywhere else, things never turn out the way we expect them to. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 1 likes |
 | All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death. |
 | War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left. |
| Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man. |
 | Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. |
 | Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. |
 | All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. |
| The great city of Carthage started three wars. After the first, it was still strong. After the second, it was still habitable. After the third, it was impossible to locate it. |
| Their peace and their war are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace. |
| War is like love, it always finds a way. |
 | There are just wars. There is no just army. |
 | War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | The war has remained for me the most tender human experience that I have lived. |
 | War loves to seek its victims in the young. |
 | It was in 1915 the old world ended. |
 | War is therefore divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
| History proves that war is the usual state of mankind, that is, human blood must flow uninterruptedly on the globe. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
| It is the first step that, in all wars, reveals genius. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | War remains the decisive human failure. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war. |
| In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. |
| It's a pity both sides can't lose. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician (comment on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988) |
| In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. |
| You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. |
 | The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. — William Westmoreland, 1914-2005, American general, military commander in Vietnam |
 | War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. |
 | The war justifies the existence of the army. By destroying it. |
 | Freedom is often the first casualty of war. |
| If we want to secure peace, let us prepare for war. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
| Everything in war is very simple, but even the simplest is very difficult. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
| Every suspension of offensive action, either from erroneous views, from fear or from indolence, is in favor of the side acting defensively. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
| In war we primarily strike at the enemy’s center of gravity. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
| A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
Latin Quotes
 | If you want peace, prepare for war. Si vis pacem, para bellum. 188 likes |
 | Money is the soul of war. Pecunia nervus belli. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 46 likes |
 | There is no security in war. Nulla salus bello. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 29 likes |
 | War is sweet to those who have never experienced it Dulce bellum inexpertis. — Erasmus, 1469-1536, Dutch humanist (originally from Pindar) 28 likes |
| Law stands mute in the midst of arms. Inter arma silent leges. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 27 likes |
 | War hated by mothers… Bellaque matribus detestata… 15 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| Events cast long shadows before. One such event would be a war. But how are shadows to be seen When total darkness fills the screen? — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 5 likes |
| War seldom enters but where wealth allures. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | I have something transparent and inexplicable to say Like a bird song in time of war. |
Funny Quotes
 | I come from a stupid family. During the Civil War my great uncle fought for the West. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 8 likes |
 | – How come we play war and not peace? – Too few role models. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 2 likes |
 | War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
| Without the police, everyone would kill each other and there would be no more war. |
Stupid Quotes
| Airplanes are interesting toys but without military value. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal (said it in 1911, before WW I) 6 likes |
| This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 5 likes |
| I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 4 likes |
 | Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] (said it in 1934) 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | War is a violent teacher. Ο δε πόλεμος... βίαιος διδάσκαλος. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 8 likes |
 | Nobody is so stupid to choose war instead of peace. Because in peace the children bury their fathers but in war the fathers bury their children. Ουδείς γαρ ούτω ανόητος εστί όστις πόλεμον προ ειρήνης αιρέεται· εν μεν γαρ τη οι παίδες τους πατέρας θάπτουσι, εν δε τω οι πατέρες τους παίδας. — Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History” 6 likes |
 | War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. Γλυκύ δ᾽απείρῳ πόλεμος. — Pindar, 522-438 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet 5 likes |
| War is a matter not so much of arms as of expenditure. Έστιν ο πόλεμος ουχ όπλων το πλέον, αλλά δαπάνης. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 4 likes |
| War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. Πόλεμος πάντων μεν πατήρ εστί, πάντων δε βασιλεύς. Και τους μεν θεούς έδειξε, τους δε ανθρώπους, τους μεν δούλους εποίησε, τους δε ελευθέρους. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
| Gold is the nerves of the war. Νεύρα πολέμου χρυσός. — Pindar, 522-438 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet 4 likes |
 | A plausible war is preferable to a dishonorable peace. Πόλεμος ένδοξος, ειρήνης αισχράς αιρετώτερος. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 3 likes |
| Be in battle daunting, in courts humane. Δει εν μεν τοις όπλοις φοβερούς, εν δε τοις δικαστηρίοις φιλανθρώπους είναι. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 3 likes |
 | All wars are made for the acquisition of assets. Δια την των χρημάτων κτήσιν πάντες οι πόλεμοι γίγνονται. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | Peace is raising sons in this world. Ειρήνη ανά γην κουροτρόφος. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -228 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket! — from the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 7 likes |
