Imagine all the people, living life in peace. This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes about war and armed conflicts.
And of course there is another collection with proverbs, quotes and sayings about peace.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl SaganAll’s fair in love and war.
Under extenuating circumstances one can break the rules of fair play.Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head;
this world is ruled by violence,
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob DylanYou'd better get that in your head;
this world is ruled by violence,
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Source: Lyrics: Union Sundown
Does it never strike you as puzzling that it is wicked to kill one person, but glorious to kill ten thousand?
Steven PinkerHe said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for.
ColdplayIf you can tell me something worth fighting for.
Source: Lyrics: A Rush of Blood to the Head
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert EinsteinImagine all the people, living life in peace.
John LennonIn fact, war may be just another obstacle an enlightened species learns to overcome, like pestilence, hunger, and poverty.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Keep Calm and Carry On.
(unknown author)Making peace, I have found, is harder than making war.
Gerry AdamsMama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
Bob DylanI can't shoot them anymore
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. KennedyMusic is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
Jason MrazNo nukes, is good nukes.
R. de JongOlder men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Herbert HooverOne nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
(unknown author)Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri GellerPeace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert EinsteinSince wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
(unknown author)Source: Constitution of UNESCO
So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly inreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.
Barack ObamaSoccer is war.
(unknown author)The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham LincolnThe only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breast-feeding their babies.
Tsutomu YamaguchiThe quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
George OrwellThe real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane SatrapiThere are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Noam ChomskyThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinWar appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention.
Henry MaineWe are all intuitive physicists, biologists, engineers, psychologists, and mathematicians. Thanks to these inborn talents, we outperform robots and have wreaked havoc on the planet.
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest GainesYou cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein