Edmond Rostand Quotes

(J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

There will be no fighting. We know that these fellows won’t fight.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

I'm actually a pretty quiet guy when it comes to fighting. I'm pretty serious. When I go out to fight people I'm not a big talker.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.