Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Peace and war are intertwined; conflict often arises from peaceful conditions.
In plain terms
War can grow from peace.
What can you take from it?
Watch how calm hides tension.

Where it applies

  • international relations
  • community disputes
  • workplace dynamics

Putting it to work

  • monitor complacency
  • address root causes
  • build resilience

Questions to consider

  • Can peace breed conflict?
  • What hidden tensions exist in calm?

Another view

Not all peace leads to war; stability can be genuine.

More from Bertolt Brecht

  1. Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

    Permalink to quote #60
  2. General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

    Permalink to quote #62
  3. The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

    Permalink to quote #59

Related quotes

  1. There can be no country or dignity without unity of the people, and there can be no unity without agreement, and there can be no agreement without conciliation…

    Rene MoawadRene Moawad quote #1
  2. Politics is a substitute for violence.

    Dick GephardtDick Gephardt quote #1
  3. Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government.

    Thomas PaineThomas Paine quote #2