Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

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

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

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 civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.