Throughout human history, people have constantly suffered from wars and brutal internecine battles. Knowing this, many writers and philosophers tirelessly called for those in power to finally think about the value human life and stopped fighting each other. Their words and thoughts turned into imperishable quotes about peace and war, which even today continue to carry their message to all peoples of the Earth.

Horrors of war

War always brings only destruction and death. Only fools see notes of the beautiful and eternal in it. And no goal or idea can justify killing a person, because any life is sacred. Even the best motives, sprinkled with blood, become only hypocritical ambitions, unworthy of existing in this world.

And many quotes about peace on earth, first of all, tell us how stupid and senseless any battle is:

• “War is the scourge of the state, which will certainly deplete its treasury. And even after taking all the gold from the defeated enemy, such a country will never become rich. After all, since the Roman Empire, I cannot remember a single nation that could be fully enriched after victory” (Voltaire).
• “The war cannot be called a real feat. She is just an illusion of achievement. After all, at the heart of any great deed is the wealth of connections that it brings. But a simple game of heads and tails will not achieve this, even if the price for losing is life or death. Therefore, war is not a heroic deed, it is only a malignant disease, like typhus” (Saint-Exupéry).
• “Anyone who has at least once seen the eyes of a dying soldier will think twice before entering into a new battle” (Bismarck Otto).

When the end justifies the means

And yet sometimes quotes about peace justify military action. This applies to cases where violence is needed to protect people or one's country. After all, there is nothing bad or shameful in the desire to protect your homeland from the clutches of the enemy.

The following quotes about peace and war can confirm this:

• “War is barbaric only when we attack a peaceful neighbor. But in moments when we defend our homeland, it is a sacred duty” (Guy de Maupassant).
• “Any resistance to the hated invader is a legitimate matter. Moreover, this is the unpayable debt of every nation to its ancestors” (Stendhal).
• “Defending your homeland is the best purpose of a person” (Derzhavin G.R.).

The beauty of peace and tranquility

Many quotes about peace describe the beauty of the peace and harmony that comes with it. It is in this call that the main message from all the sages of the past lies. Even after death, they tirelessly remind us that the world is much more better than war, because he is the creator of progress and well-being of mankind.

• “The established peace is much better and more pleasant than the expected victory” (Livy).
• “The horror of war and the well-being of the world are so familiar to people that from the most ancient times, best wishes“Peace be with you” is rightfully considered (Leo Tolstoy).
• “Peace, prosperity and friendship of peoples - that’s what we need for happiness” (Mark Twain).

The best quotes about peace and war

In conclusion, here are a few more that can shed light on the madness of violence and the beauty of the world.

• “War exacts tribute from both men and women equally. The first have to pay in blood, and the second in tears” (William Thackeray).
• “Any battle is such an insane action that any sane poet rightfully considers it the product of a fury” (Erasmus of Rotterdam).
• “War for a country is screams and tears, grief-stricken widows and orphans, destroyed houses, youth trampled into the mud and oppressed old age...” (Ilya Erenburg).
• “Perhaps the war contributed to the development of savages, leaving behind the strongest and most persistent. But in modern world its consequences are detrimental to progress, since often the best and bravest among us die in battle” (Alfred Fouillet).
• “In the heat of battle, even the most good people turn into wild animals. And this is what frightens us most” (Voltaire).

“I began to understand what people are capable of. Anyone who has gone through a war and does not understand that people create evil, just as a bee produces honey, is either blind or out of his mind.”

(William Golding. Quoted from the book: Golding, William // Laureates Nobel Prize: Encyclopedia)

“If everyone fought only according to their convictions, there would be no war.”

(Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace)

“- Is there no God? - No, my friend. Of course not. If he had, would he have allowed what I saw with my own eyes?

(Ernest Hemingway. For whom the bell tolls)

“Everyone in government power is obliged to avoid war, just as the captain of a ship avoids shipwreck.”

“War is barbaric when a peaceful neighbor is attacked, but it is a sacred duty when one defends the homeland.”

(Guy De Maupassant. Complete collection essays)

“Franco bombs Barcelona because, according to him, monks were brutally exterminated in Barcelona. Consequently, Franco defends Christian values. But a Christian, in the name of Christian values, stands in bombed Barcelona near a fire in which women and children are burning. And he refuses to understand. Meaning of life".

(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Who are you, soldier)

“Of all the monstrously insane phenomena of the past, the war was, without a doubt, the craziest. Perhaps, in reality, it caused less harm than such less noticeable evils as universal recognition private ownership of land, but the disastrous consequences of the war were so obvious that they were indignant at it even in that dark and Time of Troubles. The wars of that time were completely meaningless. In addition to the masses of dead and crippled, in addition to the extermination of huge material wealth and wasting countless units of energy, the wars did not bring any results. The ancient wars of savage, barbarian tribes at least changed humanity; some tribe considered itself physically stronger and more organized, proved this to its neighbors and, if successful, took away their lands and women and thus consolidated and spread its power. The new war did not change anything except the colors on geographical maps and drawings postage stamps and relationships between a few randomly emerging individuals.”

(H.G. Wells. In the Days of the Comet)

“Permanent peace would be the same as constant war. War is peace."

(George Orwell. 1984)

“War is not just about who will shoot whom. War is about who will change someone’s mind.”

(Boris Lvovich Vasiliev. And the dawns here are quiet...)

“I quickly began to become disillusioned with military affairs. My brothers in arms zealously polished their boots and participated in the exercises with great enthusiasm. I didn't see any point in this. They just turned us into fresh cannon fodder.”

(Charles Bukowski. Bread and Ham)

"When a war breaks out, people usually say, 'Well, this can't last, it's too stupid.' And indeed, war is indeed too stupid, which, however, does not prevent it from lasting a long time.”

(Albert Camus. Plague)

“As long as the earth revolves around the sun, as long as there has been cold and heat, storm and sunlight, until then the struggle will continue. Including among people and nations. If people stayed in paradise, they would rot. Humanity became what it is thanks to struggle. War is a natural and commonplace thing. War is going on always and everywhere. It has no beginning, no end. War is life itself. War is the starting point."

(Adolf Hitler. My struggle)

“Oh, human shame! Consent reigns

Among the damned demons, but a man -

A creature possessing consciousness creates discord with its own kind; Although he has the right to rely on the mercy of Heaven and knows the covenant of the Lord: to preserve eternal peace, he lives in hatred and enmity, Tribes devastate the Earth with merciless wars, bringing destruction to each other.”

(John Milton. Paradise Lost)

“War is a psychosis generated by someone’s inability to see the relationships between things. Our relationships with our neighbors. With economics, history. But above all - with nothing. With death."

(John Fowles. Magus)

“War and love, on Earth, are the two main items of trade. Since time immemorial, we have been releasing them in huge quantities.”

(Robert Sheckley. Pilgrimage to Earth)

“Anyone who has ever looked into the glassy eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think twice before starting a war.”

(Otto von Bismarck, speech, August 1867, Berlin)

“War is a disaster and a crime that contains all disasters and all crimes.”

(Voltaire. Quoted from the book: Kuznetsov V.N. Francois Marie Voltaire)

“We justify everything we do as a necessity. When we bomb cities, it is a strategic necessity, and when our cities are bombed, it is a heinous crime.”

(Erich Maria Remarque. A time to live and a time to die)

(Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky. How steel was hardened)

“War, Your Grace, is an empty game.

Today - success, and tomorrow - a hole...”

(Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky. Letter to General Z)

“History teaches that wars begin when governments believe that the cost of aggression is small.”

(Ronald Reagan)

“Perhaps the only reason wars arise again and again is that one can never fully feel how the other suffers.”

(Erich Maria Remarque. Return)

“Wars are never won, Charlie. Everyone does nothing but lose, and whoever loses last asks for peace.”

(Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine)

"Only a few whose vile well-being depends on people's grief, make wars."

(Erasmus of Rotterdam. Quoted from the book: Aphorisms. Golden Fund of Wisdom. Eremishin O.)

“War is not a real feat, war is a surrogate for a feat. The basis of a feat is the wealth of connections it creates, the tasks it sets, the accomplishments it encourages. A simple game of heads or tails will not turn into a feat, even if the stake in it is life or death. War is not a heroic deed. War is a disease. Like typhus."

(Antoine Saint-Exupéry. Military pilot)

“The old men declare war, but the young go to die.”

(Herbert Hoover)

“War is a test of all the economic and organizational forces of every nation.”

(Vladimir Lenin)

Quotes about the Great Patriotic War

Dear Colleagues!

In less than a month we will celebrate one of the main holidays of our country - MAY 9. It is still one of the spiritual bonds for both society and the country as a whole.

I know from myself how difficult it is sometimes to quickly find the right quote for an exhibition, speech, or message. I bring to your attention a selection of quotes about the Great Patriotic War, which includes both poetic and prose quotes. I hope they will help you in preparing exhibitions and events for the holiday - MAY 9. Previously, there was a similar selection of quotes about the Battle of Stalingrad.

No government could have resisted such terrible, cruel wounds that Hitler inflicted on Russia. But Soviet Russia not only survived and recovered from these wounds, but also inflicted a blow on the German army with such power that no other army in the world could have inflicted on it...

Winston Churchill

In the first months of the war German soldiers in their helmets, green overcoats, with their machine guns, tanks, dominance in the sky, they inspired fear. They seemed irresistible. The retreat was largely due to this feeling. They had superior weapons, but also the aura of a professional warrior. We, the militia, looked pathetic: blue cavalry riding breeches, instead of boots there were boots and windings. The overcoat is not tall enough, there is a cap on the head...

Three weeks passed, a month, and everything began to change. We saw that our shells and bullets were also striking the enemy and that the wounded Germans were also screaming and dying. Finally we saw the Germans retreating. There were the first private, small battles when they fled. It was a revelation. We learned from the prisoners that it turned out that we, the militia, in our ridiculous riding breeches, also inspired fear. The resilience of the militia, their rage stopped the rapid advance on the Luga line. German units are stuck here. The depression from the first stunning blows passed. We stopped being afraid.

During the siege, military skill became equal. Our soldiers, hungry and poorly supplied with ammunition, held their positions for all 900 days, against a well-fed, well-armed enemy, simply by virtue of their superior spirit.

Daniil Granin

Do we have the right to forget what peace and freedom cost us? Wouldn't such oblivion be a betrayal of the memory of fallen soldiers, of the grief of inconsolable mothers, lonely widows, and orphaned children? This must not be forgotten in the name of our persistent struggle for peace, which is unthinkable without the bitter memory of the disasters of the past war.

S.S. Smirnov "Brest Fortress"

It is known that the British lose all battles except the last one. This proverb speaks of the country's stability. We, too, were losing the war; according to all calculations, the Germans should have carried out the Barbarossa plan and reached the Urals. Militarily, they were stronger than us in all respects. It's really unclear why they lost. We won because we fought against the occupiers, our war was a just war, from the very first day we knew that we would win. Moral superiority was more important than air superiority.

Daniil Granin

I will take this opportunity to repeat tomorrow in the House of Commons what I said earlier, that it was the Russian army that gutted the German war machine and in currently holds back an incomparably larger part of the enemy forces on its front

letter to I. Stalin September 27, 1944, “Correspondence of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR with the Presidents of the USA and Prime Ministers of Great Britain during the Great Patriotic War 1941−1945" M., 1967. T. 1. P. 260

Winston Churchill

On the European front the most important event last year, without a doubt, was a crushing counter-offensive of the great Russian army against the powerful German group. Russian troops have destroyed - and continue to destroy - more manpower, aircraft, tanks and guns of our common enemy than all the other United Nations combined.

Franklin Roosevelt

Under the leadership of Marshal Joseph Stalin, the Russian people showed such an example of love for their homeland, fortitude and self-sacrifice, which the world has never known. After the war, our country will always be glad to maintain relations of good neighborliness and sincere friendship with Russia, whose people, by saving themselves, are helping to save the whole world from the Nazi threat.

Franklin Roosevelt

In all my work, the most precious thing is that dedicated to our Victory. In the 70s, director Carmen invited me to voice a 20-episode documentary“The Great Patriotic War,” where the true figures of our terrible losses were announced for the first time. I remember close-ups of people different ages who went to the front from besieged Leningrad, and the words: “Look at these faces. Remember them. None of these people will return alive...” I started to voice it and... I couldn’t hold back my tears. I had to stop. Only after a week did I learn to cope with the lump in my throat and the tears that were coming.

Vasily Lanovoi

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I know it's not my fault

The fact that others did not come from the war,

The fact that they - some older, some younger -

We stayed there, and it’s not about the same thing,

That I could, but failed to save them, -

This is not about that, but still, still, still...

A. T. Tvardovsky

Crossing, crossing!

The guns fire in the pitch darkness.

The battle is holy and just.

Mortal combat is not for glory,

For the sake of life on earth.

A. T. Tvardovsky

Yes, you can survive in the heat, in thunderstorms, in frosts,

Yes, you can go hungry and cold,

Go to death... But these three birches

You can't give it to anyone while you're alive.

K. M. Simonov

Only those people who honor their heroes can be considered great. (Rokossovsky)

Victory! This is the greatest happiness for a soldier - the knowledge that you helped your people defeat the enemy, defend the freedom of the Motherland, and return peace to it. The consciousness that you have fulfilled your soldier’s duty, a difficult and noble duty, higher than which there is nothing on earth!

Rokossovsky

Not a single country, not a single people of the anti-Hitler coalition suffered such heavy victims as Soviet Union, and no one put so much effort into defeating the enemy who threatened all of humanity. Not a single bomb was dropped on American soil.

G. K. Zhukov

Time has no power over the greatness of everything we experienced during the war. And the people, who once experienced great trials, will continue to draw strength from this victory.

G. K. Zhukov

After Stalingrad, the army became like a hardened blade, capable of crushing any force. Battle on Kursk Bulge this was superbly confirmed.

G. K. Zhukov

The war required many sacrifices from all the peoples of the world. I am happy that I was born a Russian person. And he shared with his people in the last war the bitterness of many losses and the happiness of Victory.

Zhukov

The greatness of the feat near Moscow lies in the fact that we did not outnumber the Germans in strength... Now it’s hard to believe, but at the end of the battles near Moscow, the norm for shells was established: one or two rounds per gun per day.

G. K. Zhukov

I believe that young people made the main sacrifice in the war. How many wonderful young people we have lost. How many mothers did not have children after the war!

Marshal G. Zhukov

A hero is one who died wisely and bravely, bringing the hour of victory closer. But twice the hero is the one who managed to defeat the enemy and remained alive. (V.I. Chuikov)

And Russia - dear mother -

He will give full respect to everyone.

The fight is different, the time is different,

There is one life and one death.

A. T. Tvardovsky

The truth is that, despite the most difficult trials, we have won. (A. Chakovsky)

Like a child born in labor, -

There will be twice the road

To us the Earth liberated

From a sworn enemy. (S. Ya. Marshak)

Let the living remember

and let generations know

This harsh truth of soldiers taken into battle.

And your crutches, and the mortal wound through and through

And the graves over the Volga,

Where thousands of young people lie...

S. Gudzenko

People!

As long as hearts are knocking, -

Remember!

At what price was happiness won?

Please remember!

R. Rozhdestvensky

Forties fatal,

Lead, gunpowder...

War is sweeping across Russia...

D. Samoilov

In Europe, journalists said to my face: “Why are you running around with your Victory in Russia? We’ve already forgotten.” I asked them: “How many days did your countries resist Hitler?” They are silent. Then I continued: “Poland was conquered in 28 days, and in the same 28 days in Stalingrad the Germans were able to capture only a few houses. Denmark lasted exactly a day. And all of Europe was conquered in three months. And our soldiers had to free her. And at what cost! A million lives Soviet soldiers given for the liberation of Europeans from fascism." But Europe chose to forget about it!

Vasily Lanovoi

Now many want to belittle the importance of our country in the defeat of fascism. It’s fine if Western ideologists do this, but it’s disgusting to see how our home-grown lackeys sing along with them for opportunistic reasons. These people are violating what is sacred.

Vasily Lanovoi

Blooming May! Just like in '45...

Sacred Ninth!

I bow low to the waist to the soldiers,

That Victory was brought to us a long time ago.

And on Victory Day I’m ready to hug

All veterans! God let them live!

Let us not forget their feat, and again

We will thank them for Life!

War, that's what it is - war...

And to those who are scorched by the fierce breath,

That bitter cup that has been drunk to the bottom,

Not even sweeter... with fireworks.

War, that's what it is - war...

To this day, the old wounds ache.

And yet – put on your medals!

And happy Victory Day, veterans!

For the ninth, let's drink to spite everyone!!! For victory in this world and for the tank - T-34, FOR "Katyusha", FOR the soldier... we'll drink while standing, guys!!! We will say THANK YOU to grandfather for the Great Victory!!!

We are RUSSIAN and let the enemy forever remember that only then do we kneel when we kiss the RUSSIAN flag!

Thank you to grandfather for the Victory, for every home that has been defended, for the clear sky, for faith, for the fact that we now live!

I don’t know why, it’s somewhere inside me, but for some reason I cry on Victory Day. This is truly a celebration with tears in my eyes. Especially when I hear the song “Victory Day”. But at the same time, the mood is still festive. Probably tears of memory are combined with pride for one’s people and joy from a difficult, but still Victory.

There are almost none left - WAR VETERANS...

That distant and strong SOVIET COUNTRY...

But the war burst into their youth... Without asking, the war...

Who reached the Victory... Well, someone left names at the graves...

How they defeated the enemy, they themselves and GOD knew...

Boots have trampled kilometers of roads...

And believe me, more than once, death stared me in the face...

And the ring froze in my hand from the grenade...

We know firsthand about that terrible disaster...

From fathers and grandfathers about the great war...

You are all in the memory of our WAR VETERANS...

That distant and strong... that SOVIET country...

Let's bow our heads quietly... Let's just all keep quiet...

Thank you for the VICTORY, to your loved ones, family...

Shcherblyuk Lyudmila

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Victory Day! He froze on the ships,

He raised an eternal flame over the bowl

It rumbles and beats in people's hearts,

It scorches us with song, it rings in verse,

Blazing with posters and flowers.

(E. Asadov)

Victory! Victory!

In the name of the fatherland - victory!

Eternity puts them at the head...

In the name of the living - victory

In the name of the future - victory!

(R. Rozhdestvensky)

Not all soldiers will see a victorious day

Not everyone can come to the holiday parade.

Soldiers are mortal:

Feats are immortal.

The courage of soldiers never dies.

(B. Serman)

“I am an equal among equals with you

I have become a stone, but I live

You, who gave me centuries,

Don't forget for an hour

That I am looking at you from stone."

(M. Maksimov)

“The second front was opened by a Russian woman. In 1941, when she took upon herself all this manly, backbreaking work, when the front, the army, the war relied on her with their power. Well, I’m not even talking about the feat of the same Russian woman after the war: the home hearth, home warmth, song - all this was glowing. And a new generation grew up primarily around women. This must never be forgotten. And, of course, a Russian woman, a Russian woman, is more worthy than the greatest monuments.”

(F. Abramov)

We are soldiers

And this is our glory

Those who died and returned

We ourselves must rightfully tell

About our generation of soldiers.

(N. Starshinov)

Farewell! Over time together

Rolling up of the last wave

We are leaving along the road of honor

Dear people who came from the war.

Let's leave... Over our daily bread -

Great Victory crown

Let's go, saluting the living

The tears of our hearts.

(M. Dudin)

The soldiers in the trenches were crazy

And fell in mortal combat,

But they didn’t spare their lives

For your bitter land.

R. Rozhdestvensky

They say it's posthumous

Our bodies will become earth.

I'm ready to believe

No wonder this rumor.

Let me become a particle

Land won in battle

That land on which

Now I live with all my heart.

(R. Gamzatov)

And I, until death extinguished

In my eyes the last star -

I am your soldier, I am waiting for your orders.

Lead me, Great Russia,

To work. To death, to heroism - I’m going!

(N. Gribachev)

What to do. Memory is to blame.

She scratched like a bayonet,

That on such a day long ago

(Don’t forget this date from your heart!)

War rose up like black smoke.

(E. Asadov)

For the rest of my life

We have enough exploits and glory,

Victories under a bloody enemy

For the rest of my life.

(from song)

O my generation! We walked with you

For the sake of the happiness of the earth through smoke and troubles,

Spots of scarlet dawn on the dry ground

Like a memory of the heavy price of victory.

(E. Asadov)

…I know,

Like clay smells in the trenches,

I heard,

I walked from the Volga itself

to Berlin

Soldier

of your homeland

(V. Poltoratsky)

I have no reason to worry

So that that war is not forgotten,

After all, this memory is our conscience,

She's like the strength we need

Yu. Voronov

Don't forget, don't forget, soldiers,

Those who were buried by the war...

Dates are still responding

To their immortal names

(I. Rzhavsky)

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Thanks to everyone who gave their lives,

For dear Rus', for freedom,

Who forgot fear and fought,

Serving my beloved people.

Thank you,

Your feat is eternal,

While my country is alive,

You are in our souls,

In our heart

We will never forget the heroes!

Come on, on the ninth, let's remember them,

Who is no longer alive today...

Who never returned in '45,

Remaining in our memory as a soldier...

And those who returned, but soon left -

I found refuge in that world...

Blame it all on the brutal war,

Giver of posthumous orders,

Wounded souls and bodies,

Bringing so much evil to the living!!!

Defenders! We will honor you sacredly,

And keep those terrible years in memory,

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Wise Quotesabout war, about memory

Tell me what makes you so sad?

The whole world.
Ernest Hemingway

I firmly believe that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war, that nations will come together not to destroy but to create, and that the future belongs to those who will do more for suffering humanity.

Louis Pasteur

“Those who lie about the past war are bringing the future war closer. There was nothing dirtier, harsher, bloodier, more naturalistic than the last war in the world. No need heroic war to show, but to frighten, because war is disgusting. We must constantly remind people about it so that they don’t forget. With your nose, like blind kittens, poke into the shitty place, into the blood, into the pus, into the tears, otherwise you won’t get anything from our brother.


How many people lost in the war? You know and remember. It's scary to name the true number, isn't it? If you call it, then instead of a ceremonial cap, you need to put on a schema, kneel on Victory Day in the middle of Russia and ask your people for forgiveness for a mediocre war, in which the enemy was buried with corpses, drowned in Russian blood.”

THIS MASSACRE CANNOT BE CALLED A GREAT WAR...
“If we talk about the attitude towards this war, well, what can I say, I was a very Soviet young man, I voluntarily went to the front, fought against fascism, remained alive, returned, reviewed a lot, suddenly realized that if we drop the word “fascism”, then these were two identical systems that were in a competitive dispute with each other. Two totalitarian systems.

Well, there was a purely external difference, of course. There was a swastika, and here there was a hammer and sickle. There was a possessed Fuhrer, and here there was a brilliant leader of all nations. There they openly hated Jews, but here they shouted about their love for Jews and quietly destroyed them. This was the difference. But in principle, two identical systems collided. I began to understand this, of course, after the war, much later. Therefore, I believe that this massacre cannot be called a great war, it is indecent. The carnage is never great."
Bulat Okudzhava

How meaningless is everything that is written, done and thought about by people, if such things are possible in the world!

Something in ourselves prevents us from seeing the full picture of the world!

To what extent is our thousand-year-old civilization deceitful and worthless if it could not even prevent these flows of blood, if it allowed hundreds of thousands of such dungeons to exist in the world.


Only in the infirmary do you see with your own eyes what war is.
EM. Remarque, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

I want to live without wars. I want to know that overnight, somehow, guns all over the world turned to rust, that bacteria in bomb casings became harmless, that tanks fell through highways and, like prehistoric monsters, lie in pits filled with asphalt.
This is my wish.
Ray Bradbury, "Rust"

CONVERSATION WITH YOUR GRANDSON.
I called my grandson from the yard to the open window.
-What are you playing?
- In the submarine war.


- To the war? Why do you need war?

- Listen, commander:
The peoples do not need war. Play better in the world.

He left after listening to the advice. Then he came again
And he quietly asks: “Grandfather, how can we play in the world?”

Catching the news that he broadcast in the morning,
I thought: it's time to stop playing with war,
So that children can learn to play in the world!

Could there be anything more absurd than the fact that such and such a person has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the river or the sea and because his government is in a quarrel with mine, although I have no quarrel with him.

And the world passes away, and its desires, but he who does the will of God will live forever.
John the Theologian
Having a soft heart in today's world is courage, not weakness.
Michelle Mercier

War is murder. And no matter how many people come together to commit murder, and no matter what they call themselves, murder is still the worst sin in the world.

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The war will last as long as people are foolish enough to be surprised and help those who kill them by the thousands.

War turns people born to live as brothers into wild beasts.
Voltaire

They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not raise sword against nation, and they will no longer learn to fight. Isaiah
Writing on the wall at the UN building in New York


Over the 6 thousand years of existence of civilization in different corners There have been more than 15 thousand wars on our planet, the direct losses of which are likely to be about 3.5 billion people. Throughout its history, humanity has lived in peace for only 300 years.
During the period from 1945 to the present day, guns on Earth were silent for only 26 days.

One of the American astronauts said: each of us flies into space as a patriot of our country, and arrives as a patriot of the Earth. Of our planet. And there's no better way to say it.


Looking at the Earth from above, you feel our planet as one, Living being. Who suffers from fires, destruction, earthquakes. War. And you understand that humanity must unite for the sake of the future. Sooner or later. Better earlier.

It was and remains an honor for me to refuse military service. I have discovered that the real enemy is not the one you point the gun at, but those who stand behind and above you and require you to pull the trigger.

War is not an adventure. War is a disease. Like typhus.

Man rules over man to his detriment
Solomon

War is a way for rich people to protect their interests by sending the children of the middle and poor classes to their deaths.

Peace is more than the absence of war.
Peace is unity and harmony. This is harmony.

Do you know that over the past 3,500 years, the civilized world has lived without war for only 230 years?
He said:
- Tell me these 230 years, then I will believe you.
- I can’t name it, but I know it’s true.
- And what kind of civilized world are you talking about!
Jonathan Safran Foer

War is the most terrible thing. People of some beliefs fight for their beliefs with people of other beliefs.

To be created to create, to love and to conquer is to be created to live in the world. But war teaches us to lose everything and become something we were not.

Real victories are victories of peace, not war.

Only in a world free from war will it be possible, for the first time in human history, to make full use of the knowledge and labor of people to satisfy their needs.

War is a political cancer that corrodes the body of the most powerful states.

How worse person thinks about the world around him, the worse this world becomes for him.

The war has eaten away at my soul.
For someone else's interest
I shot a body close to me
And he climbed onto his brother with his chest.
Sergei Yesenin “Anna Snegina”

There are people who consider it fair to destroy those undesirable,
to make the world a better place... their world...

All war propaganda, all the screams, lies and hatred always come from people who will not go to this war.

Cruel century. Peace is conquered by guns and bombers, humanity by concentration camps and pogroms. We live in times when everything has turned upside down... Aggressors are now considered defenders of peace, and those who are persecuted and persecuted are enemies of peace. And there are entire nations who believe this!

The world continues to waste trillions on useless military spending. How is it that it is easier to find money to destroy people and the planet than to protect them?

We live in strange times; the war has moved to a new space. The battlefield has become the media, and in this new conflict it is difficult to separate Good from Evil.


It is difficult to understand who is good and who is evil: as soon as you switch to another channel, the opponents change places. Television brings envy into the world.

The enemy is not Ukraine, not Russia, not the USA and not the European Union. The enemy is lack of love.

To teach people to love justice, it is necessary to show them the results of injustice.

A brilliant invention in the form of military awards. This ancient trick allows any government to make a very profitable exchange. A person gives up his hearing, vision, years and limbs to the regime, and in return receives... a shiny plaque. As a rule, the victim of such fraud is very happy that he was fooled and is proud of the symbol of his stupidity.

The progress of civilization cannot be denied - in every new war we are killed in a new way.

Old people declare war, and young people go to die.
(Herbert Hoover)


The most dangerous type of mass epidemic is not the plague or cholera, but psychosis, covering entire segments of the population. Remember the Danish Crusade. Or a medieval witch hunt. What is war if not a mental illness that affects entire countries, and even continents?
Boris Akunin

Sayings and aphorisms about the world and life

The whole huge world around me, above me and below me is full of unknown secrets. And I will open them all my life, because this is the most interesting, the most exciting activity in the world.
Vitaly Bianki

AND the world a person is illuminated by his own, inner Light. The world around us is the way we make it. Man is a kind of lantern. His inner Light, his love and true kindness is the force that illuminates the world around him. And around each of us there is always exactly as much Light as we gave it.
Angel de Coitiers
The main thing I would like to be sure of is that in our world, above talent, above energy, concentration, determination and everything else, there is kindness. The more kindness and cheerfulness in the world, the better this world is always.
Stephen Fry
“Put your sword back in its place, because everyone who takes the sword will die by the sword.”
Jesus Christ


Light is in man. And the world around a person is illuminated by his own, inner Light. The world around us is the way we make it. Man is a kind of lantern. His inner Light, his love and true kindness is the force that illuminates the world around him. And around each of us there is always exactly as much Light as we gave it. The more you open up, the brighter everything around you becomes.
Angel de Coitiers

Every morning when we wake up, we have twenty-four completely new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the potential to live this day in such a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy and happiness to ourselves and others.

I am here on this planet. And at this moment I look at the delightful stars, which with their twinkling want to tell us so much. I look at this beautiful night, which knows so many of our secrets. And if you look closely, you can see how miracles begin to make their way into every home and in the morning they will become part of the lives of those who believe in them. And I see how the flowers enjoy their short moments. Oh, God, how beautiful you have made life for them!.. Oh, how beautiful this night is... So much so that you want to shout “thank you” and let these echoes touch all the worlds!
From the Internet

I will say this, amigo - build your house, give birth to your son, water your tree...
And you will be happy. AND good name. And there will be no war.

The world looks amazing in the eyes of amazing people.

Know how to take the position of another person and understand what he needs, not you. The whole world will be with the one who can do this.



People were created to be loved, and things were created to be used. The world is in chaos because everything is the other way around.

We live in the incredible fantasy world, but we don’t notice it.

And no matter what language you write, no matter what you have done in your life as an artist and as a person, they can take your body, like some thing, and do with it as they please.
Emir Kusturica

If you change yourself, the outside world changes with you - there are no other changes.
Kobo Abe

Don't rely too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Oh, if you were attentive to my commandments! Then your peace would become like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Your descendants would become as numerous as sand, and the descendants descended from you would be as numerous as grains of sand.
Isaiah

A person notices in the world only what he already carries within himself.

Nothing lasts forever in our sinful world, not even our troubles.

All this hatred in our world is terrible. Forget about nations, forget about colors, forget about different religions. We are all humans. The only thing that makes one of us better than another is good deeds.

A person must develop an aversion to all military actions and realize that all people are brothers and should live in peace and unity, working for the common good and prosperity.

Happy are those who live, those who truly live, who carry within themselves a grain of hope from which a whole world will grow - a world of hope, new world, which will be better than before.

Home is not objects worth several thousand dollars and not the delights of modern designers, but cozy little things, the voices of children, the smell of home-cooked food, toys scattered on the floor, a bookcase and just the feeling of your own cozy little world...

They tell me that with my statements I want to turn the world upside down. But would it be bad to turn an upside-down world upside down?

The modern world relieves people of the need to think. Our eyes are replaced by education, our thoughts are replaced by rules, our own opinions are replaced by stereotypes, our desires are replaced by commercials. Everything has already been invented, recorded, put in its place... Don’t think, but listen, look and remember. You've already been taken care of. Wash your hair with this shampoo, sleep on these beds, wear these jeans. Yes, of course, you have the right to choose, but what is it for? While you choose, reflect, analyze, time will pass. So don’t bother your head with all this nonsense. Live comfortably, let your every day be a holiday of limitless consumption.

It has been noticed: what color are the words we pronounce, the same color is the world around us...

Sincerity is always attractive. Whenever we meet it in someone, it captivates our heart. It’s only a pity that in our world it resides more in children. In adult society, sincerity is rare. However, like everything real, genuine.

The world is big enough to satisfy the needs of any person, but too small to satisfy human greed.

In no dark or tragic moments of life should we forget the most important thing: the joy that you are still alive, that you can help someone, through yourself bringing a person an atmosphere of peace and protection. Only a joyful person sees clearly and can act to the fullest extent of things.

Peace is the highest good that people desire in this world.
Miguel Cervantes

He who has contemplated the greatness of nature himself strives for perfection and harmony. Our inner world should be like this example. In a clean atmosphere everything is clean.
Honore de Balzac


If you are able to see beauty, it is only because you carry beauty within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees their own reflection.

Happy is the one who can see beauty in ordinary things, where others see nothing! Everything is fine, you just need to be able to look closely.
Camille Pissarro

The world always looks a little brighter when we do things for each other rather than ourselves.
Charles de Lint

If peace is not established between the great so-called civilizations and nations, then it can be assumed without exaggeration that everyone will suffer the same fate and every country participating in the war will sink into eternity...

When you want to break out of the system,
Then you will understand how many chains there are in it:
Built stereotype walls,
Puppets are made from people.

Success at any cost is the “meaning of life”
Love has become a trademark.
Getting sick, giving birth, and even walking is dangerous:
Blood is shed every day for money.


What to do? Clubs, sex, partying and shopping -
Culture gives us such outlets.
It’s bright outside, but it’s dark inside.
This is how the people of Earth live now.
But there are still people in this world,
who are able to support
They live according to their conscience and believe: there will be sunshine!
And they strive to revive morality.

They broke the strings of the system
And they learn to love this whole world,
Help each other with advice and deeds
And live amicably, harmoniously, honestly!
Elena Smolitskaya

I am in despair because people in this world lack compassion, love, and common sense. Because someone can easily talk about the possibility of resetting nuclear bomb, not to mention giving the order to reset it. Because there are only a handful of us who care. Because there is so much cruelty, suspicion and anger in the world. Because big money can turn an absolutely normal young man into an evil and cruel criminal.
John Fowles

Nowhere in the world will we find a country foreign to us; from everywhere you can equally raise your eyes to the sky.

The one who has reached inner peace and peace, finds peace and tranquility everywhere.

In a world where there is a lot of anxiety and doubt
Only the one who knows how to love is happy.
You can live without clothes and money,
but it is impossible to live without love!

I believe in man, I believe in humanity. This is the worst and best thing that happened to this world.

ONLY LOVE INSPIRES YOU TO LIVE

The world is full good people. If you cannot find one around you, then be one yourself.
If you want to live in a clean and beautiful world, then start with yourself.

In this world, tired of falsehood, only love inspires, to live, fill yourself with love, and then try not to kill it...
You will not find anything in the world around you that is not in your soul. How more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in people and in the world around you...

Stay calm. With calmness comes awareness and peace. With peace comes joy. Happiness will come with joy.

The main thing that life teaches a person is not that there is suffering in the world, but that it depends on him whether he will turn suffering to his benefit, whether he will turn it into joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

The best idea in the world won't do you any good if you don't act on it. People who want milk should not sit on a chair in the middle of a field, hoping that the cow will come back to them.

If you don't value yourself highly, the world won't offer you a penny more.
Sonya Henie

Doing good is like breathing air,
A need given to people by God.
Warm the world with the rays of the heart,
And to give, and not to consider that you have given a lot...
From the Internet.

Change the world with your smile, but don't let the world change your smile!

You feel like if you don't see something, it doesn't exist. No, you just don’t notice in the world what is not inside you. Evil person doesn't see good. To the greedy, everyone seems greedy; to the world lover seems to be filled with love, but to the hater - with hatred. The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in the world around you.

It’s stupid to hope to do something global, for example, to establish peace in the whole world, to create happiness for everyone, but everyone can do some small thing that will make the world at least a little better...

Remember that even though it is raining in the outside world, if you continue to smile, the sun will show its face and smile back at you.
Anna Lee
The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in the world around you...

A person with a pure heart sees purity in everything. After all, the outside world is only a reflection of your heart. If you fill it with love, you will feel love everywhere...


Living in the world without trying to understand its meaning is like walking around a huge library and not touching the books.

They claim that the further the world goes, the more it becomes united, united in fraternal communication, by shortening distances and transmitting thoughts through the air.
Alas, do not believe in such unity of people.
Understanding freedom as the increase and quick satisfaction of needs, they distort their nature, because they give rise to many meaningless and stupid desires, habits and the most absurd inventions. They live only for envy of each other, for carnality and arrogance.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, 1880

In this world, what makes us rich is not what we get, but what we give.

The more I observe the world, the less I like it. Every day confirms to me the imperfection of human nature and the impossibility of relying on apparent decency and common sense.
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

Avoid evil and do good, seek peace and strive for it.

We humans cannot on our own to do something global, for example, to establish peace in the whole world, to create happiness for everyone, but everyone can do some small thing, thanks to which the world will become at least a little better.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I want to see a more perfect world, a world of love and friendliness, and this alone can make my day beautiful and worthy of being.

Everyone in the world is looking for happiness. Eat the right way find it - control your thoughts. Happiness does not depend on external circumstances, but on internal state. It doesn't depend on where you are or what you do, but what you think about it.

There is no more beautiful feeling in the world than the feeling that you have done at least a drop of good to people.
L. N. Tolstoy

If you want the world to change, become that change yourself.

There are too many people in the world who have not been helped to awaken.
Antoine de Saint-Expury

I want to continue to live in a world where loyalty still exists, and vows of love are made forever...

Peace to the one who is not afraid of a dazzling dream,
For him delight lies hidden, for him flowers bloom!
K. Balmont

God has always sought to unite humanity, and humanity has always sought to separate


Peace is the highest good that people desire in this life.

Quotes, aphorisms and sayings about the War.

1170. War is the greatest disaster that can cause suffering to humanity; it destroys religion, states, families. Any disaster is preferable to her. M. Luther.
1171. War - greatest sorrow, especially in the conditions of modern military equipment. L. Leonov.
1172. War imposes tribute equally on both men and women, but only takes blood from some, and tears from others. W. Thackeray.
1173. War for the people is tears and blood, it is widows and homeless people, it is a scattered nest, lost youth and insulted old age. I. Ehrenburg.
1174. War is not only a shock, but a spiritual test and spiritual judgment. I. Ilyin.
1175. War is one of the greatest sacrileges against man and nature. V. Mayakovsky.
1176. War is the continuation of politics by other means. K. Clausewitz.
1177. War is murder. And no matter how many people come together to commit murder, and no matter what they call themselves, murder is still the worst sin in the world. L. Tolstoy.
1178. War is a cruel thing; it entails injustice and crime. Plutarch.
1179. War is a crime that cannot be atoned for by victory. A. France.
1180. War is the most absurd invention of mankind, which consumes most of the resources and effort. And yet we fight. A. Schopenhauer.
1181. War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language. A. Beers.
1182. War is a judgment on nations: victory and defeat are its sentence. A. Rivarol.
1183. War is the same punishment for the one who carries it out as for the one who suffers from it. T. Jefferson.
1184. War is a game in which sometimes the best people are defeated. M. Kemal.
1185. War is misfortune on an enlarged scale. I. Bentham.
1186. War is a luxury that only small nations can now afford. X. Arendt.
1187. War is too serious a matter to be trusted to generals. D. Kennedy.
1188. War is work. As a matter of fact, feats in war are born precisely in the midst of this labor. Feat is born among soldiers' labor, in the depths of this labor. K. Simonov.
1189. War is a denial of truth and humanity. It’s not just a matter of killing people, for a person must die one way or another, but the conscious and persistent spread of hatred and lies, which are gradually instilled in people. D. Nehru.
1190. War and fighting are purely male inventions; A woman's weapon is her tongue. G. Gingold.
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1191. An army of rams led by a lion will always win over an army of lions led by a ram. Napoleon I.

For no other cause do men unite so quickly as to kill other men.

Susan Glaspell
The war would have been a picnic if it weren't for lice and dysentery.

Margaret Mitchell
Everything is simple in war, but the simplest thing is highest degree difficult.

Carl Clausewitz
War consists of unforeseen events.

Napoleon I
Before the battle every plan is good, after the battle every plan is bad.

Vladislav Grzeszczyk
No plan survives an encounter with the enemy.

Helmuth von Moltke
War is a traumatic epidemic.

Nikolay Pirogov
War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Carl Clausewitz
The flourishing of military sciences is possible only in peacetime.

Don Aminado
War is just a cowardly escape from peacetime problems.

Thomas Mann
War is a way of untying a political knot with teeth that defies language.

Ambrose Bierce
We are told that war is murder. No: it's suicide.

Ramsay MacDonald
War is, for the most part, a catalog of blunders.

Winston Churchill
War is a series of disasters leading to victory.

Georges Clemenceau
In war there is no second prize for the losers.

Omar Bradley
There are no winners in war, only losers.

Arthur Neville Chamberlain
If our soldiers understood why we are fighting, no war would be possible.

Frederick the Great
IN civil war every victory is a defeat.

Lucan
Every war between Europeans is a civil war.

Victor Hugo
I do not know a single nation that has become rich as a result of victory.

Voltaire
If the outcome of the war could be foreseen, all wars would cease.

Karol Bunsch
How is the world governed and how wars break out? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe their own lies when they read them in newspapers.

Karl Kraus
Old people declare war, and young people go to die.

Herbert Hoover
It is not the military that starts the war. Politicians start war.

General William Westmoreland
Wars begin in the minds of people.

From the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO
The war is only over when the last soldier is buried.

Alexander Suvorov
The war does not end, it rests.

Urszula Kozel
A war cannot be fair, because you cannot fight fairly, even if you are fighting for justice.

Tadeusz Kotarbiński
There are just wars, but there are no just troops.

Andre Malraux
Only the victors decide what the war crimes were.

Gary Wills
No one really needs war, but many people need hatred.

Max Frisch
Either wars will go out of fashion, or people will.

Buckminster Faller
Either humanity ends war, or war ends humanity.

John Kennedy
Cold War: uneasy coexistence instead of easy non-existence.

Revised version by Judith Beach
The first casualty of war is truth.

Johnson Hiram
IN war time the truth is so precious that it must be guarded by guards of lies.

Winston Churchill
Ant: “It’s not me who fights. The anthill is at war.”

Karel Capek
Many people go to war only because they don’t want to be heroes.

Tom Stoppard
The worst thing, apart from a lost battle, is a won battle.

Duke of Wellington
If we lose this war, I will start another under my wife's name.

Moshe Dayan during the 1967 Six Day War
It is impossible to win a war, just as it is impossible to win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt
Wars start when they want, but end when they can.

Niccolo Machiavelli
On the first day of war and the first day of peace, we still do not believe that this is true.

NN
The death of those who fell on the battlefield in their youth is felt the more painfully the longer their peers live.

Vladislav Grzegorczyk
For those who fought, the war never ends.

Curzio Malaparte
This war will end wars. And the next one too.

David Lloyd George
The Falklands War was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Jorge Luis Borges
Wars are like litigation, where legal costs exceed the amount in dispute.

Luc de Vauvenargues
Perpetual peace will reign if the winner is forced to pay all expenses.

Evan Esar
Someday they will declare war and no one will come.

Carl Sandburg
Any war is popular during the first thirty days.

Arthur Schlesinger
The goal of war is peace.

Aristotle
Most quick way to end the war is to lose it.

George Orwell
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

Georges Clemenceau
Prologue of the 20th century - gunpowder factory. Epilogue - Red Cross barracks.

Vasily Klyuchevsky
There will be no World War III veterans.

Walter Mondale

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