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Quotes About Peace

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
~ Ralph Bunche
A true man hates no one.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
~ John Steinbeck
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
~ William Beveridge
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
~ Golda Meir
No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
~ Eugene V. Debs
Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
Why, of course, the people don't want war.
~ Hermann Goring
Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.
~ Kamal Haasan
The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.
~ Menno Simons
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.
~ Ashley Purdy
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
~ John Quincy Adams
Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.
~ William Appleman Williams
No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
~ Menachem Begin
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
~ Robert Byrd
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
~ Gerry Adams
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
~ Haile Selassie
Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.
~ Daniel James, Jr.
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
~ John F. Kennedy
I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.
~ John Conyers
During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.
~ Fritz Haber
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero