Florence Nightingale Quotes

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

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.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

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

Little brother, I don’t mean to be a downer, but we’re talking about War here. There’s no way to mitigate damages. He won’t let us. I was there with twenty-five Chthonians to fight him and he spanked our hides like we were Lemurian slave women. Two of us had our hearts ripped out and shoved down our throats while he laughed, then he licked the blood clean from his fingers and came at the rest of us. (Savitar)

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

There can be no compromise with war.

Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

War is what happens when language fails.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions ... but by iron and blood.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

You can’t have peace without a war.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.