Defined Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the…

— Elie Ducommun

Another name for peace is development.

— Pope John Paul II

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If…

— Pope John Paul II

Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built…

— Vladimir Putin

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,…

— Walter Bagehot

The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

— Pope Pius XII

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about…

— Wendell Berry

Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we…

— Dalai Lama

Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups…

— Pal Schmitt

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their…

— Christian Lous Lange

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

— Christian Lous Lange