Avoid War

Famous quotes containing the words avoid and/or war:

“To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)