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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes to Explore

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race....
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it....
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children....
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad....
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office....
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous....
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all....
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own....
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world....
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power....

War Quotes to Explore

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is...
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in ...
The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences....
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first....
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Cen...
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services....
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, wh...
Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demoniz...
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature....
What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?...