Truce Quotes

• There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Justice, World, Tense

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.62, Best Books on

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu Art of War”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Moral, Kind, Tradition

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• Shall we upon the footing of our land
  Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
  Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
  To arms invasive?

  William Shakespeare

  War, Order, Land

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King John”, p.72, Courier Dover Publications

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• The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Fighting, Storm

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• There can be no truce between science and religion.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science And Religion

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• TRUCE, n. Friendship.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.230, University of Georgia Press

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• I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Thinking, Air

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain for the individual, the same mad global ambitions. And they will be dealt with in just the same way. Like all fascists, the terrorists can not be appeased. They must be defeated. This struggle will not end in a truce or a treaty. It will end in victory for the United States, our friends and for the cause of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Struggle, Ambition, Mad

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• RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Digging, Purpose, Suspension

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

  Stephen King

  Memories, War, Cancer

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• Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Vices, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.214, Modern Library

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• It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Cities, Paris

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• Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Struggle, Hypocrisy

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

  Winston Churchill

  Wicked, Action, Gang

  "You Do Your Worst - And We Will Do Our Best". Winston Churchill's speech, winstonchurchill.org. July 14, 1941.

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• Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Way, Made

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sweet, Philosophy, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.34

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• And on that day, the day of truce, that day when not one woman is raped, we will begin the real practice of equality, because we can't begin it before that day. Before that day it means nothing, because it is nothing; It is not real; It is not true.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Real, Mean, Practice

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• A truce to idle phrases!

  Aristophanes

  Phrases, Idle

  Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.22, Sparklesoup LLC

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• The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

  Claudia Rankine

  Letting Go, Waiting, Forgiving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Wise, Found, Enjoy

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• Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Giving, Accepting

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• The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

  Dan Fante

  Book, Passion, Character

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• When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

  Edward Gibbon

  Blow, Encounters, Arms

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.2211, e-artnow

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• Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

  Charles Sumner

  Peace, Forever, Sound

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.123, Library of Alexandria

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