Bertolt Brecht Quote

Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

"Those at the top say: peace and war" [Die Oberen sagen: Friede und Krieg] from "A German War Primer" [Deutsche Kriegsfibel] (1937), trans. Lee Baxendall in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 288 - Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)