War:

1. War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood
2. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover
3. In war, truth is the first casualty. – Aeschylus
4. War does not determine who is right—only who is left. – Bertrand Russell
5. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. – George S. Patton
6. War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. – Georges Clemenceau
7. Only the dead have seen the end of war. – Plato
8. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. – William Tecumseh Sherman
9. All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. – John Steinbeck
10. War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. – Napoleon Hill
11. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. – George Orwell
12. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. War is organized murder, and nothing else. – Harry Patch
14. War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann
15. 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
16. Wars are not fought for peace, but to make more money. – Socrates
17. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next. – Eleanor Roosevelt
18. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu
19. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling is worse. – John Stuart Mill
20. The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. – Norman Schwarzkopf
21. It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee
22. You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. – Will Rogers
23. If we don’t end war, war will end us. – H.G. Wells
24. War never determines who is right, only who is left. – Anonymous
25. When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. – Jean-Paul Sartre
26. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy
27. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
28. In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. – José Narosky
29. Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. – George S. Patton
30. I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. – Thomas Jefferson
31. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman
32. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. – Alexander Berkman
33. War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. – Pindar
34. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. – Thucydides
35. War is the unfolding of miscalculations. – Barbara W. Tuchman

Peace:

1. Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa
2. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi
3. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein
4. The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war. – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
5. If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Desmond Tutu
6. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. – Buddha
7. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. – Martin Luther King Jr.
8. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – John F. Kennedy
9. There is no ‘way to peace,’ there is only peace. – Mahatma Gandhi
10. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. – Virginia Woolf
11. True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King Jr.
12. Peace does not mean the absence of war, but the presence of justice, of law, of order—in short, of government. – Albert Einstein
13. If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. – John Lennon
14. It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. – Eleanor Roosevelt
15. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix
16. Peace is the only battle worth waging. – Albert Camus
17. Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me. – Jill Jackson Miller
18. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Buddha
19. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. – George Washington
20. Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
21. Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind. – Daisaku Ikeda
22. Peace is liberty in tranquility. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
23. Peace is its own reward. – Mahatma Gandhi
24. The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. – Mahatma Gandhi
25. If you want peace, prepare for war. – Vegetius
26. The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. – Desiderius Erasmus
27. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. – Mahatma Gandhi
29. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. – Aristotle
30. When we are at peace with ourselves, we can be at peace with the world. – Seneca
31. Peace is always beautiful. – Walt Whitman
32. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori
33. Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein
34. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. – Ronald Reagan
35. True peace comes from knowing that God is in control. – Anonymous