Society and the World

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

All war is deception.

All war is deception.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

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.

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

In times of war, the law falls silent.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.