Jill Lepore Quotes

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

A world without war is not in the cards.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.