We make war that we may live in peace.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

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

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

War is the business of barbarians.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

War is what happens when language fails.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.