Philippa Gregory Quotes

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

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.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

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.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

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

A war is only as good as the peace that follows.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

You can’t have peace without a war.