Quotes About Peace

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

There are few things that's forever, my lady. We can make war or make babies.