Quotes About Harmony

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

War is not a thing one wants.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Peace is more difficult than war.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.