I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

I've made my peace with myself.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Peace is our gift to each other.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.

Making peace is harder than making war.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.