I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

- François Rabelais

Author

· France

• Art
• War

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

- Mary Rose O'Reilley

• Art
• Economy
• War

Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

- Jean Giraudoux

Playwright

· France

• Air
• Elements
• War

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

- Jean Paul

Writer

· Germany

• Dog
• Hatred
• War

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

- Jean Plaidy

Author

· England

• Suffering
• War

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

- Jean Racine

Playwright

· France

• Blood
• Violence
• War

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Economist

· France

• Benefit
• Division
• War

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher

· Switzerland

• Dignity
• Virtue
• War