Cecelia Ahern Quotes

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

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

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

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

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

We shall never war except for peace.

Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

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.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

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

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

We go about peace in a very belligerent way, don't we.

I am against war, and because I am against war I went to war to fight against war.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

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.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!