Conditions Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

— Luc de Clapiers

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

— Pope Leo I

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings,…

— George Grosz

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

— Baruch Spinoza

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…

— Alexander Cockburn

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

— Robert E. Lee

“Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.”

— T.H. White

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of…

— Walter Bagehot

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last