“In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.”
“Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.”
“We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.”
“Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!”
“if you want peace, prepare for war”
“If Midnight’s Children is India’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, then A Suitable Boy must be its War and Peace.”