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Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end. — Rachel Caine

Focus on peace not on war.
Love, live, share and care. — Debasish Mridha

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace ... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it ... for good or bad reasons. — Zainab Salbi

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

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. — George Orwell

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. — Herodotus

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war. — Desiderius Erasmus

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. — James Thomson

And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. — Ruskin Bond

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love. — Thomas Traherne

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war. — Nadeem Aslam

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. — Helen Thomas

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence. — Amit Ray

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time. — Albert Einstein

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. — Thomas Jefferson

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war. — Menachem Begin

Peace is a road to happiness and the future.
War is a road to destruction and death. — Debasish Mridha

War has been the norm and peace the exception — Susan Sontag

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. — Juvenal

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights. — Ronald Reagan

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. — Douglas MacArthur

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace. — Michel Templet

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. — Meir Kahane

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models. — Bill Watterson

I don't care if it's Twilight or Fifty Shades or War and Peace - Never let someone make you ashamed of what you love to read! — Rae Carson

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come. — Boris Trajkovski

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

War can't bring peace in the world; only understanding and love can do that. — Debasish Mridha

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. — Mahatma Gandhi

To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all - forgiveness. — Debasish Mridha

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. — Anthony Liccione

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war. — Wendell Berry

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever. — Debasish Mridha

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square. — S.I. Hayakawa

It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world! — Widad Akreyi

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy

When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder. — P.J. Sullivan

Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war-torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid? — Libba Bray

We are not seeking ... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region. — Hassan Rouhani

War is the plague of mankind; I am and remain in solidarity with eternal peace. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it. — Simon Schama

We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Peace and not war is the father of all things. — Ludwig Von Mises

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. — Herodotus

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. — Rufus Wainwright

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace. — Aristotle.

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT! — Widad Akreyi

Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe. — Debasish Mridha

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use. — H.L. Mencken

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. — George H. W. Bush

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. — Aslan Maskhadov

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. — Heraclitus

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds. — Harry S. Truman

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In love there are two evils: war and peace. — Horace

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter
and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein

Make LOVE ... Not WAR!
Give Our World Peace And Not Despair — Timothy Pina

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. — Ulysses S. Grant

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. — Francois Rabelais

If others are going to make war; we celebrate peace and love. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable. — Condoleezza Rice

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end. — Ignatius Of Antioch

War will not be able to bring peace - only love and forgiveness can do that. — Debasish Mridha

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. — Debasish Mridha

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace. — Thomas Jefferson

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' — Vikram Seth

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. — Henry A. Kissinger

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco

It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable. — Mark Kurlansky

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever. — Albert Einstein

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. — Pope Francis

It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. — Augustine Of Hippo

So, if they hold aloof from you and wage not war against you and offer you peace, Allah alloweth you no way against them" (Qur'an 4:90). — Denise A. Spellberg

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness. — Prince Hassan Bin Talal

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen

When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle. — Debasish Mridha

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too. — Johnny Carson

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled. — John Keats

What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be. — John Flavel

I understood more clearly than ever that the line between a noble revolutionary and a lowdown bandit was the line between war and peace. — James Carlos Blake

Each hour, every hour of peace was a treasure. War boiled black and violent on the horizon, and when it came, it would engulf the world. — Nalini Singh

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications. — Pema Chodron

Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos? — Lionel Suggs

The war that exists between you and God can be over quickly, and the peace treaty is signed in the blood of [God's] Son Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

And all now is war
where so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the use
of tilled fields. — Charles Olson

A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later. — Muriel Lester

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace — John Greenleaf Whittier

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. — Woodrow Wilson

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A.J.P. Taylor

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace. — Bertolt Brecht

What if they gave a war and nobody came? — Carl Sandburg

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation. — Richard M. Nixon

We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way of obtaining it is to show that we are not afraid of war. — Edmund Morris

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action. — Lyndon B. Johnson