There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
War makes rattling good history.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
It is the good war that hallows every cause.
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
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