Quotes About Peace

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.