Fragile Peace Quotes

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

That which violence wins for us today, another act of violence may wrest from us tomorrow.

The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

To achieve something in Afghanistan is difficult; to maintain it is much more difficult.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.