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 Sagan
All’s fair in love and war.Under extenuating circumstances one can break the rules of fair play.
Democracy don't rule the world,Bob Dylan
You'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 Pinker
He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a warColdplay
If 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 Einstein
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.John Lennon
In fact, war may be just another obstacle an enlightened species learns to overcome, like pestilence, hunger, and poverty.Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Making peace, I have found, is harder than making war.Gerry Adams
Mama, put my guns in the groundBob Dylan
I can't shoot them anymore
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.John F. Kennedy
Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.Jason Mraz
No nukes, is good nukes.R. de Jong
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.Herbert Hoover
One 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 Geller
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.Albert Einstein
Since 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 Obama
Soccer is war.(unknown author)
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.Abraham Lincoln
The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breast-feeding their babies.Tsutomu Yamaguchi
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.George Orwell
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.Marjane Satrapi
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.Noam Chomsky
There never was a good war or a bad peace.Benjamin Franklin
War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention.Henry Maine
We 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 Pinker
Source: How the Mind Works
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?Ernest Gaines
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.Albert Einstein
