Brendan Behan Quotes

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

The best war is when you can hate both sides.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Peace. Now that he is dead, peace will return to my country.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

There are things more important than peace.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.

'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.