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Quotes About Peace

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.
~ Harry S. Truman
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
~ Vera Brittain
Every war is a war against children.
~ Eglantyne Jebb
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
~ Martin Luther King III
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.
~ Amos Oz
Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!
~ Raphael Lemkin
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
~ Alice Walker
The true objective of war is peace.
~ Sun Tzu
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
~ Rudyard Kipling
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
~ Walter Scott
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
~ Benito Mussolini
I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.
~ Yasser Arafat
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.
~ Leslie Groves
War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
~ Jayne Mansfield
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
~ Omar N. Bradley
The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.
~ Francois Mitterrand
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
~ Elise M. Boulding
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.
~ Howard Zinn
War is nothing but organized murder.
~ Harry Patch
We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.
~ Kofi Annan