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Famous Quotes on War and Peace
“War is not the answer. We must and will find peaceful solutions to our differences.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible”- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Being fearful of war, as I am, and holding out both hands in friendship, I will offer you one of them.”- Robert Green Ingersoll
“War destroys everything it touches” – Martin Niemoller
“There is too much wrong in the world for us not to do something about it. You can’t just sit back and let the world go by.”- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through love.”- Mother Teresa
“If you’re going to be a fighter, you’ve got to have something to fight for.” – Muhammad Ali
“A pack of wolves could devour the children of men better than a single wolf” – Buddha
“Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan.”- John F. Kennedy
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle” – Benjamin Franklin
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world”- Gandhi
“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”- George Orwell
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”- Desmond Tutu
“We shall not grow tired; we shall not lose our courage; we shall not cease to work for peace”- Albert Einstein
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it”- Albert Einstein
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy”- Martin Luther King Jr.
“Cruelty can be stopped through the redirection of energy. It can cease through love.-Thomas Merton
“We have far more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked”- Richard Condon
Famous Quotes on War
“The future has many names, but one word in each of them is the same: Hope”- Mahatma Gandhi
“Riot is the language of the unheard.”- Ida B. Wells
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.”- Finley Peter Dunne
“If you want to send a message that will be received, use a cannon.”- Mark Twain
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”- Galileo Galilei
“[In] nonviolence, you don’t hit out at people. You talk, and you learn.”- Mahatma Gandhi
“Always begin your speech with a good story” – Benjamin Franklin
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”- Edmund Burke
“Nothing ever gets done unless somebody wants it” – John F. Kennedy
“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more detestable” – Maurice Chevalier
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”- Sun Tzu
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.”- Rachel Carson
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire”- Ferdinand Foch
“The only force capable of overcoming the power of the state is the power of the people.”- Vaclav Havel
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding”- Albert Einstein
“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
“Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that”- Martin Luther King Jr.
“I see no worthwhile end to which war can lead”- Mahatma Gandhi
“Everything I learned in life I learned from horses.” – Andrew Jackson
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. – Theodore Roosevelt
“Revenge is sweet, but not when it ends in murder.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Let us never tolerate under the cloak of patriotism an act which violates or attempts to subvert the liberty of conscience.”- Albert Einstein
“Nothing is so contagious as Example” – Benjamin Franklin
“Violence is a poor way to talk to people.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”- Ben Loeb
“Nothing is so difficult to understand as the action of a wise and good person, carried out in spite of himself.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”- Mao Zedong
“One man with courage is a majority” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”- Eleanor Roosevelt
“One day, you will be old; then you will know how short life is. And you will thank me for showing you this.”- Mahatma Gandhi
“A lie is often halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.” – Winston Churchill
“When there is no enjoyment in life, there is no room for joy.” So wrote Mahatma Gandhi when he was 22 years old. And I have often felt, “It’s a matter of joy and sorrow both.”- Gandhi in “Young India “August 03, 1925
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”- Dalai Lama
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I like to spread happiness” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Worrying never solves anything, but it often makes things worse.”- Mark Twain
“Change will come, but it may be a long time coming.” – Winston Churchill
Best Quotes on War
“One man with courage is a majority.”- Mahatma Gandhi
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.”- Chinese Proverb
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”- Dave Barry
“Just because you are rich, doesn’t mean You are Successful” – Paulo Coelho
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter Drucker
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”- Thich Nhat Hanh
“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
“Preparedness is half way to victory.”- Mahatma Gandhi
“Growth is change, the only thing that lasts” – Robert Kiyosaki
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart” – David Livingstone
“Great men are forged in crises; small men are flinched by them” – Mark Twain
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” – Thomas Sowell
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Confucius
“What we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for others is and remains immortal”- Albert Pike
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark” – Michelangelo
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less” – C.S. Lewis
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books” – Plato
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18” – Albert Einstein
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step” – Lao Tzu
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds” – Francis Bacon
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”- Henry David Thoreau
“Never wish to be anyone else; there’s no benefit in it, and it only leads to unhappiness”- Ben West
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone”- Henry David Thoreau
“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape” – Unknown
“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterward to solve other problems” – René Descartes
“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die” – Unknown
“The worst difficulty in the way of doing right is to find an honest man who will do it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“One cannot probe too deeply into the problems of human existence without discovering that they all originate in the most obscure recesses of our own consciousness and that we ourselves are responsible for creating them.” – Albert Einstein
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”- Oscar Wilde
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wise people so full of doubts”- Bertrand Russell
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it” – Henry David Thoreau
“You can’t get lost if you don’t know where you’re going” – Unknown
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision”- Helen Keller
“The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food”- Voltaire
“We learn from history that we have never learned anything from history”- Winston Churchill
“You can’t take anything with you when you go” – Benjamin Franklin
“You can’t stop loving and learning, or it will be too late”- Maya Angelou
“When one’s beard is grey, one must leave off hoping.”- Joseph Joubert
“The person who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”- Franklin D Roosevelt
“If you make a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it. If you apologise, do so sincerely. If someone hurts you, forgive them. If you love someone, tell them.”- Mother Teresa
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I’m not ashamed to admit that I am ignorant of what I don’t know” – Socrates
“We always have one more chance than we think we do” – unknown
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”- Albert Einstein
“There is as much stupidity in the world as there is genius”- Albert Einstein
“The ability to learn from experience is the highest human faculty.”- Helen Keller
“You will never know how much you can accomplish if you don’t show up.”- Maya Angelou
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Confucius
“Every human being has within him a creative impulse, a sense of beauty…We are all artists.” – Albert Einstein
“If there is anything that can contribute in any way towards making life better for the many, it should be an earnest endeavour on the part of everyone to fulfil the promise contained in every human being.”- Albert Einstein
“I have but one fear: that of forgetting all I have learned” – Albert Einstein
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart” – David Livingstone
“The only thing worse than being poor is being unhappy about it”- Gore Vidal
“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit, I know how high it is”- Jon Bon Jovi
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”- Kahlil Gibran
“The only way to deal successfully with the future is to live in the present.” – Albert Einstein
“Never give up what you can’t afford to lose” – Benjamin Franklin
“We are all born for love”- The Beatles
“He who dares nothing wins nothing”- Benjamin Franklin
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”- Albert Einstein
“Do it scared. Do it scared” – Jay-Z
“Remember to treat others as you would like to be treated” – Mark Twain
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”- Vidal Sassoon
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second-best time is now.”- Chinese Proverb
“When you look into the eyes of a puppy, it’s hard to imagine that that little creature will grow up to be a vicious dog.”- Larry Wilde
“The best way out is always through”- Robert Frost
“Jesus said ‘love your enemies, do good to them which hate you'” – Yeezus
“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses” – Confucius
“Without a dream in your heart you can’t spend a single night of the year” – Mohammad Ali
“When I was young, I functioned on the principle that if someone gave me a lemon, I’d still be able to find two good uses for it”- Georgia O’Keeffe
“A great man is known by the enemies he makes” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Argue for your limitations, not for your capabilities”- Mahatma Gandhi
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be able to give up what he can’t do.” – Robert H. Schuller
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently” – Henry Ford
“To be alone…is uncomfortable, but to be comfortable alone is the sign of an active mind.”- Albert Einstein
“If you think the world is going to change, it’s probably going to stay the same” – Gail Sheehy
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist thinks it’s going to change.”- Mark Twain
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”- Albert Einstein
“A mind at peace is a mind in equilibrium”- Mahatma Gandhi
“You can’t make the world do what you want it to do, but you can make it stop what it’s doing.”- D.N. Rodan
“The man who is aware of a single thing is more aware than the man who is aware of two” – Lao Tzu
“Both starting out and arriving at growth are full of perils and difficulties”- Mahatma Gandhi
“There are as many ways to live happily as there are people”- Karl Popper
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” – Albert Einstein
“Plan for what you think you can do-prepare to be surprised by what you do” – James A. Michener
“Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.”- Paul Eldridge
“Without love, we all fall apart”- Yeezus
“A greater power than yourself can always give you strength”- Miguel de Cervantes
“There is no place like home”- Christopher Columbus
Famous Quotes on War
“Best is the enemy of good”- Mahatma Gandhi
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”- John Ruskin
“If you want to achieve peace and tranquility in the mind, there is no greater instrument than a still small voice” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The best and safest way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”- Mark Twain
“A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of” – Ogden Nash
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Aldous Huxley
“In order to see things you have to be at peace with yourself”- Pearl Bailey
“The purpose of life, after all, may not be to acquire goodness or virtue or knowledge at all, but merely to glide through the temporal world like a ghost”- Albert Einstein
“A great miracle is walking down the street and not being seen”- Ogden Nash
“Old age is when you wake up and realize that you are not sleeping, but the dream is still there.”- Woody Allen
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything twice” – Baroness Orczy
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In youth, you think that it’s better to choose than to be chosen”- George Bernard Shaw
“Be careful what you wish for” – unknown
“Only the good die young” – Oscar Wilde
“The one thing you should never do is to be smarter than your teacher”- Mahatma Gandhi
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”- Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”- Albert Einstein
“You should never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has” – Margaret Mead
“The best magnificence of the world is but a vain bubble, puffing up what is empty and brittle” – William Shakespeare
“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine”- Benjamin Franklin
“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” – Taylor Swift
“To continue to look for answers to problems that have not been solved yet, is perhaps the biggest waste of time we will ever experience” – Albert Einstein
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller
“As far as I am concerned, the best way to live is like a child” – Albert Schweitzer
“A man is actually willing to die as soon as he begins to live” – Johann W. von Goethe
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”- John Keats
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace”- John Lennon
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” – Yeezus
“If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work”- Ogden Nash
“Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark”- Rabindranath Tagore
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”- Benjamin Franklin
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is”- Albert Einstein
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity” – M. Scott Peck
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them” – Erasmus
“To see your true self, look into your child’s eyes.”- Yeezus
“The nature of man is the only thing that will not change” – Lao Tzu
“There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but all lead to the same place”- Albert Einstein
“I do not want to be left alone with my conscience, for I may do things in my sleep better than I can when awake”- Gertrude Stein
“Dying is an art, like everything else”- Anais Nin
“A person without a smile cannot be happy” – Yeezus
“You can take a trip around the world in a day if you’re lucky”- anonymous
“I don’t want to live my life in someone’s else terms”- unknown
“Worrying doesn’t change a thing, but not worrying does change everything” – anonymous
“Only the dead have seen the end of war”- George Santayana
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else” – Charles Dickens
“You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it”- anonymous
“When I let go of my expectations to be happy, happiness came and found me”- Yeezus
“We are born ignorant, spend our lives learning just enough to get by and then die knowing even less.”- Robert Kenneth Wilson
“What do we mean by the term ‘compassion’?” – Albert Schweitzer
“A devoted friendship is a most beautiful bond, cemented by what it gives;” – Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter
“The measure of one’s progress toward truth is the degree to which one’s thoughts are free from bias and self-interest”- Albert Einstein
“To make things difficult for oneself…is the only way.”- Maupassant
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hold on.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys” – Alexander Smith
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“We should look for someone to inspire us each day.”- Joe Vitale
War Quotes Sun Tzu
“War is the province of danger, and therefore, its glory”- Sun Tzu
“A good soldier is a poor man’s son”- Sun Tzu
“There will be war as long as people love darkness rather than light, as long as weak men prefer to risk death than to acknowledge the one who made them”- Sun Tzu
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters”- Sun Tzu
“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle”- Sun Tzu
“I don’t believe in heroes, but I believe in villains” – Sun Tzu
When your enemy is busy killing himself, don’t interrupt”- Sun Tzu
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles” – Sun Tzu
“Military skill is knowing how to achieve your objective with as few men as possible”- Sun Tzu
“First things first, other things second”- Sun Tzu
“No battle is ever won except by the defeated” – Sun Tzu
“Victory lies in the hands of the alert, well-organized minority who are able to educate the majority of their fellow citizens about the dangers that threaten them and are prepared to sacrifice for them”- Sun Tzu
“The way to avoid what you don’t want is to embrace what you do” – Sun Tzu
“To win a hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill”- Sun Tzu
“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage; it is discipline and valor that bring victory” – Sun Tzu
“A leader of soldiers who throw their weapons away does not deserve to be called a leader”- Sun Tzu
“All war 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 near”- Sun Tzu
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles” – Sun Tzu
Quotes On War Heroes
“These two bodies (America and Russia) have had wars, and war is the best school for the young because it teaches them to obey orders.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I have always admired General Marshall’s statements: ‘War is too serious a matter to be left to military men.'” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We must beware of those who would lead us into war for profit.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“To win a war, first you must believe in the cause.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is worse.” – John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
“If we do not want to lose all that has been gained by civilization, we need to find a way to prevent our leaders from going down into hell with us. We need to educate them better.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“War is not about winning, but saving lives.” – Unknown
“Only the non-violent can make an effective nonviolent revolution.” – Gandhi
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy
“Wars should no longer be governed by the military, but by ethic and moral standards.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Always bear in mind that your actions speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you have to say.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Go and do likewise, for this is my command to you: Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified or dismayed, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” – Joshua 1:9
“He who began a war is the greatest criminal of all.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“War is much too serious a matter to be taught by the military.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The worst thing in life is not to end up in bad company, but with false friends who represent themselves as good friends and try to deceive you.” – Confucius
“You’ll never know if you can fly unless you jump out of a plane without a parachute.” – Unknown
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The good life is not measured in the great treasures that are accumulated, but in the joy of giving and taking from others.” – Gandhi
“You do not make my enemy, nor can you lose it.” – Plutarch
“I will fight to the last man if unwise men deprive me of my liberty, but no longer than I can see the outcome with my own eyes. I will do that much. But I shall not be the destructive and cowardly element in an army that puts its leader so far ahead of the line that he cannot see the enemy.” – Socrates
“I have never asked leave to do anything for England.” – Charles Churchill
“The biggest mistake most people make is they think victory is a walk up something without risk.” – George S. Patton
“I never lie down with dogs, and I don’t make love to cats.
Bible Quotes on War
The battle is for the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel. He is the one who will tread down our enemies.” – Judges 5:8
“I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.” – Exodus 20:5-6
“Anyone who attacks you attacks me, and if anyone wants to harm you they must also harm me.”
“See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” – Hebrews 12:15
“My people have been lost sheep, their shepherds have led them astray, turning them out in the desert without an understanding heart.” – Jeremiah 50:6
“But I will remove far from you the northern army, and will drive him back into his own land a wasted remnant; his purpose is not fulfilled. Though he has planned it, so that its power will not be ready to attack, and an evil report will not be heard in your land.” – Jeremiah 30:11-12
“For the time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and chase after every kind of wickedness.” – 2 Timothy 4:3
“For we are God’s fellow citizens, and as such, have been called to live under God’s high authority. We should obey God rather than man.” – Romans 13:1-2
“I kill the king when I strike him. I am king only when my people recognize me as such.” –
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous deeds; he is the rock of my strength and my refuge in time of distress. God is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler and the horn of my salvation, my high tower and refuge, from an enemy hostile and cruel.” – Psalms 18:1-2
“In the LORD I put My trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” – Psalms 56:4
“Put on the full armour of God, so that you can take your stand against the Devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces.” – Ephesians 6:11-12
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” – Psalms 27:10
“Blessed be the Lord, because he has heard the voice of my prayer. The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped.” – Psalms 3:1-2
“I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.” – Psalms 16:8-9
“You have been put to shame by the Lord, who has rent the robe with which you covered yourself in shame, who has exposed your nakedness to the eyes of all.” – Nahum 2:4
“The people of God mourned greatly over alien residents and strangers; they humbled themselves greatly; and they said, “Is it not because of the house of our God that we are mourning, while each day we eat our portion of food from shame?”” – Ezekiel 22:25
“For thus says the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye: “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for their servants. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.” – Zechariah 2:8-9
“Their bows will cut down the young men; they will have no mercy on either man or child.