Plato Quotes

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

There is no money in this world that will make us fight.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

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

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.