Leonard Cohen Quotes

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

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

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

I have no animosity towards those who object to the war. Regardless of which side of the fence you're on, just give a moment of thanks to the hundreds of thousands of our forefathers who gave themselves so we can live in a world where we can do this.

There are things more important than peace.

Whatever miseries this war brings upon us, it is making us wiser, and, we trust, better. Wiser, for we are learning our weakness, our narrowness, our selfishness, our ignorance, in lessons of sorrow and shame. Better, because all that is noble in men and women is demanded by the time, and our people are rising to the standard the time calls for. For this is the question the hour is putting to each of us: Are you ready, if need be, to sacrifice all that you have and hope for in this world, that the generations to follow you may inherit a whole country whose natural condition shall be peace, and not a broken province which must live under the perpetual threat, if not in the constant presence, of war and all that war brings with it? If we are all ready for this sacrifice, battles may be lost, but the campaign and its grand object must be won.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

O’ Yes. War is better than slavery.

People almost never give up their freedoms — including, at times, the right to kill and impoverish one another — unless forced to do so; and virtually the only force strong enough to bring this about has been defeat in war or fear that such a defeat is imminent.

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means.

You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

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

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

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

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?