Kim Thúy quote: "As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and peace are actually friends, who mock us."

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and again...
YOKO ONO

Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that w...
DANIEL ELLSBERG

The war is won before its begun.... release the doves
FALL OUT BOY

War always has to be the last resort no the first response.
IPE MATHEW

You cannot promote peace while engaging in war.
SHELDON HAYES

peace brings ignorance. war brings arrogance. ignorance bings war, war brings arrogance, arrogance b...
THOMAS PRICE

In historical events great men-so called-are but the labels that serve to give a mane to an event, a...
LEO TOLSTOY

I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
PIERCE BROWN

I had a lot of wonderful experiences. [There were] a lot of protests then. It was the Vietnam War. T...
JAMES NELSON

We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where h...
DENIS JOHNSON

This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking....
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN

I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me your we...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet ...
JIMMY CARTER

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army t...
MORT WALKER

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
BENJAMIN SPOCK

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But t...
BILL AYERS

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...
LEO TOLSTOY

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept w...
OSMAN BAYDEMIR

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war
GEORGE CLEMENCEAU

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
MIKE MANSFIELD

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and l...
YAYOI KUSAMA

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace
ROBERT ORBEN

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better...
WALTER CRONKITE

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about t...
GEORGE WALD

There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war ...
ERNESTO TEODORO MONETA

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement agains...
NOAM CHOMSKY

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w...
ANG LEE

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war ef...
SCOTT ANDERSON

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
GEORGE MCGOVERN

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

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. W...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an omino...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
WOODY ALLEN

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our ...
LESTER B. PEARSON

Before war there is peace, after war its just the silence.
AHMAD TALAL ASIF

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.
DAVID CROSS

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine w...
JODY WILLIAMS

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs...
KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace woul...
WINSTON CHURCHILL

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it&#...
LYNSEY ADDARIO

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deser...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deser...
GEN WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the sh...
WALTER CRONKITE

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm go...
LEO TOLSTOY

But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ...
LEO TOLSTOY

Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better an...
KURT VONNEGUT

I knew Maggie since way back, when she was touring during the Vietnam war.
JAMES SPITZ

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
WOODY ALLEN

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
WOODY ALLEN

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, an...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO

I don't know a country in the entire world that has made faster progress from war, let alone such a ...
PADDY ASHDOWN

There were a series of nonsensical things bandied about here and untruths, and everything about Bosn...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
BEILBY PORTEUS

Eternal peace lasts only until the next war
RUSSIAN PROVERB

All I know is that when I was a kid the Vietnam war was on and Jane Fonda was the own person standin...
ROSIE O'DONNELL

It was such a relief to know that war was over, that peace had come.
JAMES STARNES

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
ANDRE MALRAUX

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
CHUNG MONG-JOON

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black ...
BOBBY SEALE

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of wa...
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI

Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention...
BENJAMIN SPOCK

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not b...
BENITO MUSSOLINI

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the interven...
BENJAMIN SPOCK

In life we can never really value peace unless we experience war.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war...
DOROTHY THOMPSON

“War is the only peace for ignorance. Peace is the only war for wisdom.”
EPHDAN

Without war we can never appreciate peace & without peace there will be no war.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was liste...
JONI MITCHELL

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two confli...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist w...
BILL AYERS

We make war that we may live in peace.
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST")

We make war that we may live in peace.
ARISTOTLE

I mean, remember what the Vietnam War was fought for, after all. The Vietnam War was fought to preve...
NOAM CHOMSKY

I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ...
HAROLD RAMIS

I don't know why in the world they got Vietnam and Korean war memorials up, and they didn't have any...
EILEEN MEADORS

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war
JOHN PILGER

The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
JONATHAN LARSON

What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, ...
ABDULLAH ABDULLAH

I need to find out if I'm as good at peace as I am at war
ORSON SCOTT CARD

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and t...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

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

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Eu...
JAN PETER BALKENENDE

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
JERRY STILLER

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel l...
WILLIAM ODOM

Anybody who actually cares about people, come out and help us help this man who was a veteran of the...
TONJA NEAL

The means to peace is a war, but the means to a war is not a peace, we humans are. Human beings are ...
EPHDAN

I believe that the most tragic war of our time is the one within—a war between what we knew as chi...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberal...
DENNIS PRAGER

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do tha...
MOTHER TERESA

Walking from war to peace is uncharted territory. Moving from peace to war has been charted.
LAZARUS SUMBEIYWO

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, ...
LOUIS XIV

Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Sec...
KARL MARLANTES

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've l...
LEWIS B. HERSHEY

As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and peace are actually friends, who mock us.

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As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in flames and I didn't experience war until Vietnam had laid down its weapons. I believe that war and peace are actually friends, who mock us.

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