Dan Brown Quotes

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 consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to the finish before going ahead with our construction. If you are afraid of war day in day out, what will you do if war eventually comes? First, I said that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind and war will not break out, and now I have added these explanations about the situation in case war should break out. Both possibilities have thus been taken into account.

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Imagine yourself as a wife, and you have to look at a brain-injured husband for the rest of your life, and he can't talk to you. But we're paying for this. That's the easy part, money payment. But how do you pay for the misery? So if we can, we should be able to avoid war.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less