War Quotes
All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
There is no line of defense, but field of defense. This field is the whole motherland!
A lot of challenges we face today are also entirely global - so fighting climate change or ending terrorism, or ending pandemics or when a civil war in one country leads to a refugee crisis across different continents.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.
As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them.
War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.
The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
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