Quotes on War

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music, poetry, dance, sculpture. All that is creative, all that is life-affirmative, is born out of meditation. All that is life-negative - hate, anger, jealousy, violence, war - is born out of the mind. Man has two possibilities: mind and meditation.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Laws are silent in time of war.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The more laws, the less justice.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.