Plato Quotes

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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

We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now at least he will know what he is fighting against.

It is certain two nations cannot engage in hostilities but one party must be guilty of injustice

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.