International relations Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

— Agatha Christie

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

— Nancy Gibbs

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The unhappy never want enemies.

— Samuel Richardson

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

— Andrew Jackson

Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I'm happy, you know. But war is not a time of joy.

— George W. Bush

The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

— Samuel Johnson

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

We don't want wars even when we win.

— Golda Meir

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

— Tacitus

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

— Henry Rollins