War
William Shakespeare on Peace
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
Euripides on War
“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
Plato on War
“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
Sun Tzu on Fear
“Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy”
Voltaire on Beliefs
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Sun Tzu on War
“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”
Sun Tzu on Opportunities
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
John F. Kennedy on War
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on War
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”
Robert E. Lee on War
“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.”
W. L. George on War
“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”
Napoleon Bonaparte on Peace
“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
Albert Einstein on War
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
Pope John Paul II on War
“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.”
Sun Tzu on War and Strategy
“To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
“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.”
Frank Gifford on Sports
“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”
John F. Kennedy on Power
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
Martin Luther King Jr. on Science
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Sun Tzu on Victory
“The greatest victories are those won without fighting.”
Edward Gibbon on History
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
Sun Tzu on War and Wisdom
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Ted Turner on Sports
“Sports is like a war without the killing.”