Confessional-poem Quote by Athenagoras of Constantinople

“There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war.”

— Ann Powers

“Those with inner peace do not battle themselves. Nor do they wage war with others”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.”

— Sandra Harner

“peace was never at the forefront of my mind. a war waged inside of me, but i began to take joy in the slaughter…

— Mecca-Amirah Jackson

“A bad peace is worse than war.”

— Tacitus

“In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.”

— Rae Carson

“You cannot really get peace. You can only get rid of war.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they…

— Samhita Arni

“Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.”

— Lesslie Newbigin

“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more…

— Khaled Hosseini

“in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world’s face.”

— Robin Hobb