Rose Macaulay Quotes

That he was so enamoured on peace, that he would have been glad the king should have bought it at any price.

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

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

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

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

We seek no wider war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

I believe it is peace for our time.

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

The superior power may offer peace with honor and with safety.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

I am not—as I am sure I will be charged—for peace at any price, but for an honorable rational, and political solution to this [the Vietnam] war.

We shall never war except for peace.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.