“You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.”
The Sergeant, in Scene 1
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
Context: What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898–1956Related quotes
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 61, “Jackass, Jackass” (p. 454)
Variant: Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.
Source: The Merchant of Death
Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (first published 1671), P. 143.
“Trouble ahead, Trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind”
"Casey Jones"
Song lyrics, (1970)
Address to the Senate (22 January 1917)
1910s
Context: The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power? If it be only a struggle for a new balance of power, who will guarantee, who can guarantee, the stable equilibrium of the new arrangement? Only a tranquil Europe can be a stable Europe. There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.