Top 100 Wisdom War Quotes
#1. If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
Miyamoto Musashi
#3. In every war, there are always elements of blindness.
Shimon Peres
#6. I would like to invite everyone for the Third World War, but fight the war with love, not with the gun, to win the world peace. We all will be a winner.
Debasish Mridha
#7. When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.
John C. Calhoun
#8. War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
Edward Bernds
#10. In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War
Pierce Brown
#11. War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
Walter Millis
#12. You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.
Joanne Hall
#13. Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#14. [Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
Aristophanes
#15. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#16. Do not carry war with you or by small degrees your mind will alter. Her wisdom was still valid.
Laine Cunningham
#17. No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle
Gaiven Clairmont
#18. Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.
Harry Patch
#19. Love the peace not the war,
love the humanity and take care.
Debasish Mridha
#20. The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.
Kristina McMorris
#21. Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.
Kevin Drum
#23. There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.
J. Sterling
#24. We need to win by the power of love, not by the destruction of war.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
Criss Jami
#26. Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.
Garry Douglas Kilworth
#27. We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Joe Baca
#28. It's not a bad thing, if you're responsible about it. Just don't start having boyfriends. Wait until you've found your husband."
"And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can't have a boyfriend until then?" I asked ironically.
Zack Love
#29. It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war.
Debasish Mridha
#30. War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine
#31. If everyone fights with the power of their love, there will be happiness, not the destruction or war.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Experience is not the only point, judgment is. And once again, back in 2002, when we both [with Hillary Clinton]looked at the same evidence about the wisdom of the war in Iraq, one of us voted the right way and one of us didn't.
Bernie Sanders
#34. I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.
Teresa R. Funke
#35. All of the diseases that modern medicine declares war on never seem to touch any of those ninety-year-old farmers who have lived on bacon and eggs and butter for almost a century. The media, following current low-fat medical wisdom, calls that a paradox. We don't.
T.S. Wiley
#36. Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind;
to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a blind.
Debasish Mridha
#37. It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.
Gavriel Savit
#38. If all of us make peace as a purpose of our life, how could there be war?
Debasish Mridha
#39. When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.
Charles Eisenstein
#40. As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#41. The calm words of the wise are heeded more than the shouts of a ruler over fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good.
Anonymous
#42. Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
Paulo Coelho
#44. I guess, my advice would be the following: stay calm and do not let the panic seize you.
Kateryna Kei
#45. By creating an image of low self- esteem within ourselves, we bomb and terrorize our true self. When we refuse to forgive, we create an insensible war from old grudges. When we allow stress to impede our healthy flow of energy, we create the weapon of destruction that kills humanity.
Forrest Curran
#46. Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different.
Christopher Vokes
#47. We always glorify war, but why? We have war memorials everywhere but I never saw a peace memorial yet. We teach our children war game. We let them play game which is not other than a legal war but we expect peace from them. How foolish that could be!
Debasish Mridha
#48. In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting in his benevolence against the misuse of the delegated power and in his wisdom to govern justly and make war successfully.
B.F. Skinner
#49. Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Doris Lessing
#50. There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Bonar Law
#51. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#52. I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
Victor Hugo
#53. Ego seeks the domination by war, but spirit seeks the peace through love.
Debasish Mridha
#54. O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.
Jaggi Vasudev
#55. Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#56. The war ... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Robert E.Lee
#57. Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.
Debasish Mridha
#58. The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.
Debasish Mridha
#59. When we focus on winning the battle for material gains,we end up losing spiritual war.If we had a better self of ethics we would be better prepared to deal with the complicated world in which we find ourselves.
David V. Gaggin
#61. Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.
Geoffrey Hill
#62. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by every member.
Robert E.Lee
#63. Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that ... it's a lion.
Seyoung Kim
#65. Peace is not out there and no one can really give you peace. Most often than not you are at war with yourself. To find the peace create the inner calmness, tranquility and practice self love.
Debasish Mridha
#66. As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.
Kevin DeYoung
#67. Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
John Buchan
#68. Thor might be god of strength and war, Odin of wisdom, but he sometimes wondered if it wasn't Loki, the trickster god, who stood behind what unfolded. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom. And hadn't the world proved to be a bitter joke?
Mark Lawrence
#69. Because one kingdom goes to war with another, it does not mean all citizens of that kingdom agree with it. It is not always they have a choice.
Patrick Hall
#70. Play the game of peace, not the war.
Play, not with gun, but with laughter.
Debasish Mridha
#71. One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
Sun Tzu
#72. The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.
DJ Shadow
#73. There is no love in war but there is a lot of war in love.
Katja Michael
#74. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Leo Tolstoy
#75. In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the Nation the blessings of peace. The Legislature alone can interrupt those blessings, by placing the Nation in a state of War.
Alexander Hamilton
#76. If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#78. Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.
Patrick Hall
#80. The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.
James A. Moore
#81. Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
Homer
#82. Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.
Zack Love
#83. War never can bring peace but a caring heart with love can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
Ptahhotep
#85. Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
Andrew Thomas
#86. Love is the most powerful force on this world. You can't touch it but feel it. You can bind together the whole world with it, you can win the war with it. It is faster than light, sharper than laser knife. It is softer than puffer candy but can melt your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#87. For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress
to the future.
Erich Maria Remarque
#88. We may win the war but not the soul; we may gain the power but not the peace.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
#90. Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever.
Debasish Mridha
#91. If everyone empowers themselves with power of their love, there will be only happiness and no war.
Debasish Mridha
#92. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
#93. No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love.
Debasish Mridha
#94. War can't bring peace in the world; only understanding and love can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#95. It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#96. I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute ...
Dalai Lama
#97. Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
Will Durant
#99. The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies ... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.
Tom Reiss
#100. On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
Vannevar Bush
