Charles Duhigg

Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.

American Journalist

Phil Klay

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

American Writer

Ben Horowitz

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

English Businessman

Joe Haldeman

I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

American Author

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

Dutch Politician

Jose Bergamin

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Spanish Writer

Gijs de Vries

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

Edmund H. North

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Francoise Gilot

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.

French Artist

George Wald

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

American Scientist

Use 'peacetime' when describing periods of harmony between nations, not personal peace.

Contextual Use

'Peacetime' refers to an extended period, not brief moments without conflict.

Time Duration

Peacetime is relative and depends on a nation's history of war and peace.

Relative Period

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