Bhutan Proverb Quotes

Your power, which is already very great, you can increase more by peace than by war. For the outcome of war is uncertain. More often you see adversity rather than prosperity accompany it.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Wars are most often won by those who have made the greatest effort to prevent them.

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

it much more conduceth to Peace to prevent brawles from arising, than to appease them being risen

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

In cases of defense, it is best to weigh the enemy more than he seems.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

In every conflict we make mistakes. The trick is to fix them.

One should not maintain a dispute.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.

If Europe blazes in the late spring or summer, we must put our house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere.

You want to win the wars you fight. That’s why you have to pick your wars carefully.

It is easier to begin a war than to end one, which is why the decision to start a conflict should not be entrusted to the person who wages it. Post‐war presidents have abandoned this wisdom.

The paradox of having wars with big objectives, at least in declaratory terms, but only being ready to use limited means and limited levels of mobilization to fight them, puts you in a pretty confused place.

it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.