“For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.”
“War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.”
“There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal.”
“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.”
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
“Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?”