Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.