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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.