Quotes About Peace

If you want peace, understand war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.

Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously