Peace Quote by Annie Jacobsen

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

— James Madison

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

— James Madison

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

— Tony Blair

“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

— George Eliot

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed…

— Aldo Leopold

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of…

— Milan Kundera

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

— Georgy Zhukov

“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another…

— Erving Goffman

A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing…

— Selma Fraiberg

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

— Anonymous

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan