35 phrases about war and peace

Dr Pablo Saz

Naturist doctor. Researcher at the University of Zaragoza

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Journalist specialized in health, well-being and science.

February 4, 2023 08:43

He fighting and survival instinct are the base of the most ruthless wars and destructionsthe base of armies and weapons to destroy the most sacred and beautiful: life.

The struggle is natural for some, who have made it their profession, although every day they ask themselves, as Rama asks Krishna: “Is it necessary to kill, hurt and crush my relatives and friends?”

Krishna’s response is natural: “There will always be conflict and warriors willing to resolve the conflict.”

But faced with this answer, in history warriors have emerged with a different one: “Yes, I am going to fight to resolve the conflict, but without trying to win but to convincewithout hurting or killing because the point of view is different from mine”.

35 phrases of no to war

Are phrases about war Spoken by prominent figures in politics, arts and letters, they remind us that in war there are no winners: you always lose.

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1. “Every war is a destruction of the human spirit.” (Henry Miller)

2. “No man is so foolish as to desire war and not peace; for in peace the children carry their parents to the grave, in war it is the parents who carry the children to the grave.” (Herodotus of Halicarnassus)

3. “War leaves an arduous legacy of wars.” (Guglielmo Ferrero)

4. “War is nothing more than mass murder, and murder is not progress.” (Alphonse de Lamartine)

5. “An era builds cities. An hour destroys them.” (Seneca)

6. “That poverty is better in peace than miserable wealth in war.” (Lope de Vega)

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7. “War is a massacre between people who don’t know each other, for the benefit of people who do know each other but who don’t kill each other.” (Paul Valery)

8. “It takes twenty or more years of peace to make a man, and twenty seconds of war are enough to destroy him.” (Baudouin I)

9. “The fastest way to end a war is to lose it.” (George Orwell)

10. “The only way to win a war is to avoid it.” (George C. Marshall)

11. “I would prefer the most unjust peace to the most just of wars.” (Cicero)

12. “In bitterness you will desire sweetness, and in war, peace.” (Saint Catherine of Siena)

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13. “There was never a good war or a bad peace.” (Benjamin Franklin)

14. “To make peace it takes two; but to wage war, just one person is enough.” (Arthur Neville Chamberlain)

15. “The war would end if the dead could return.” (James Baldwin)

16. “The first casualty of war is the truth.” (Hiram Warren Johnson)

17. “War is always a defeat of humanity.” (John Paul II)

18. “The laws are silent when the weapons speak.” (Cicero)

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19. “There is no inevitable war. If it arrives, it is due to man’s fault.” (Andrew Bonar Law)

20. “War makes the winner stupid and the loser spiteful.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

21.-“War is an invention of the human mind; and the human mind can also invent peace.” (Winston Churchill)

22. “The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.” (Erasmus of Rotterdam)

23. “I’ve seen enough of one war to never want to see another.” (Thomas Jefferson)

24. “War is the surgeon’s best school.” (Hippocrates)

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25. “When the rich go to war, it is the poor who die.” (Jean-Paul Sartre)

26. “In war as in love, to finish it is necessary to see each other closely.” (Napoleon I)

27. “War is an evil that dishonors the human race.” (Fénelon)

28. “Never think that a war, however necessary or justified it may seem, is no longer a crime.” (Ernest Hemingway)

29. “Men get tired before sleeping, loving, singing and dancing than making war.” (Homer)

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31. “Man has to establish an end to the war. Otherwise, it will establish an end for humanity.” (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

32. “A state at war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

33. “Justice is defended with reason and not with weapons. Nothing is lost by peace and everything can be lost by war.” (John XXIII)

34. “All the war propaganda, all the screaming and lying and hate, invariably comes from people who are not fighting.” (George Orwell)

35. “In public law, the most severe act of justice is war, because it can have the effect of destroying society.” (Montesquieu)

Why it is better to convince than to win

by Pablo Sáz

in personal relationships we tend to help each otherbut even with the closest ones conflict arises, a disagreement in which we want to be right and in which we think that the other is unfair to us, that he abuses or assaults us.

Then our being rises up, our body is filled with adrenaline and prepares for the fight.

It is something quite everyday, although sometimes we do not want to see it: a reality we sometimes stumble upon or in which we even ask for help.

You have to understand the enemy

To resolve these conflicts nails, arms, fists, bites, sticks, stones, knives, guns, bombs are used. we have generated an amazing ability to destroy.

However, there have also been warriors who have raised Other ways to resolve the conflict: approaching the fight with the intention, not to harm the enemy, but to touch his soul, to reach an understanding with him and reach an agreement.

It has been raised by great fighters such as Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Moriei Ueshibathe creator of aikido.

Is it about slipping the buck, running away? To hit back or hit twice? To fall on your knees and ask for forgiveness?

To call the courts to sentence them to beatings, imprisonment, life imprisonment or death, or to proclaim war? No, it’s not about any of that.

Nonviolent struggle is a firm attitude to face the other, knowing that they will not let go until the conflict is resolved.

Encouraged by the force of justice, enter and do battle without harm, understand the reasons and justice of the one in front of youanalyze their truth, their lies and their own.