Avoid War

Famous quotes containing the words avoid war, avoid and/or war:

    We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
    Anthony, Sir Eden (1897–1977)

    The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.
    David Hume (1711–1776)

    The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting—the war and the revolution—and the character of the accused—revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power—you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
    Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)