War and Peace

It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are punished unless they kill large numbers to the sound of trumpets.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

War is what happens when language fails.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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

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

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

Let your peace be a victory!

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.

Any peace is better than any war