Quotes About Peace

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

We must take the profit out of war.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.