Lao Tzu Quotes

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

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

We're not losing the peace.

We shall never war except for peace.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer 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.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

The superior power may offer peace with honor and with safety.

Guns and blockades are not conducive to meaningful dialogue.

That he was so enamoured on peace, that he would have been glad the king should have bought it at any price.

We have won the war. Now we have to win the peace, and it may be more difficult.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.