Avoid War

Famous quotes containing the words avoid and/or war:

“Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”
—Laura Riding (1901–1991)

“Armies, for the most part, are made up of men drawn from simple and peaceful lives. In time of war they suddenly find themselves living under conditions of violence, requiring new rules of conduct that are in direct contrast to the conditions they lived under as civilians. They learn to accept this to perform their duties as fighting men.”
—Gil Doud, U.S. screenwriter, and Jesse Hibbs. Walter Bedell Smith (Himself)