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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

— Yoko Ono

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

— Karl Liebknecht

It is far easier to make war than peace.

— Georges Clemenceau

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

— Daniel Berrigan

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

People always make war when they say they love peace.

— D. H. Lawrence

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

— Betty Williams

✗Opposing Perspectives

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

— George W. Bush

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

— Frank B. Kellogg