If we don’t end war, war will end us.
Show me who makes a profit from war, and I’ll show you how to stop the war.
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I’ve got a war in my mind So, I just ride.
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, ‘Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.’
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Come back with your shield – or on it.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
If not us, who? And if not now, when?
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general’s tent.
The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.