“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Source: Being Peace

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Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Mary Renault book The Bull from the Sea

The Bull from the Sea (1962)

“Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.”

Walker Percy book The Second Coming

The Second Coming (1980)

“The authentic British poetry of the second world war was not a poetry of protest, still less was it inspired by patriotic enthusiasm”

Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet

Introductory Essay 'Setting the Scene'
Not Without Glory, 1976

“I protested: "But all this is childish. Is there a war on here, or isn't there?"
"The Royal Welch don't recognize it socially," he answered.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch.14

“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954)
Quoted in Churchill Urges Patience in Coping with Red Dangers, The New York Times, June 27, 1954 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A10FE3458117A93C5AB178DD85F408585F9,
Has been falsely attributed to Otto von Bismarck.
But Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, "Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war." Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually—and wrongly—attributed to Churchill: “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Credit: Harold Macmillan.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/