QUOTES AGAINST WAR AND
PEACE
1.
PRO-WAR.
Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace
as far as day does night; it’s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter
of more bastard children than war is destroyer of men. ----English
poet-playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) in his play Coriolanus, Act 4,
Sc.5.
2.
PRO-PEACE.
Blessed are the peacemakers on earth!
---William Shakespeare in his play Henry
VI (2nd part), Act 2, Sc.1
3.
PRO-PEACE.
In her days every man shall eat in safety
Under his own vine what he plants, and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. ---William Shakespeare in Henry VIII, Act 5,
Sc. 5.
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4.
ANTI-WAR.
There never was a a good war, or a bad peace.---Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790),
Founding Father of the United States.
5.
ANTI-WAR.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but world War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones.---Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein
(1879-1966).
6.
ANT-WAR. War is not a necessary feature of human
life.---Lou Marinoff, Candian academic and author (Born October 18, 1951).
7.
ANT-WAR.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.---Spanish philosopher and essayist
George Santayana (1863-1952).
8.
ANTI-WAR.
In war, the first casualty is truth. American
General George S. Patton (1885-1945).
9.
PRO-WAR.
Hindu sacred book Bhagvad Gita justifies war for protection of righteousness but
it should be without personal desire, fear, or attachment to results. Further,
a person of warrior caste must fight a righteous war even against his kith and
kin. In this case, the warrior is Arjuna
wo is assured by Lord Krishna that death
is an illusion, only the body perishes but the soul therein continues to
survive in another form.
Finally, this quote by the American Confederate General
Robert Edward Lee: It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow
too fond of it.
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G. R. Kanwal
4th March 2026
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