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Quotes About Peace

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
~ John F. Kennedy
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
~ A. J. Muste
Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.
~ Natalie Maines
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
~ Charles Sumner
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
~ Howard Zinn
Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.
~ Bob Marley
I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.
~ Adolf Hitler
Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?
~ Mort Sahl
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
~ Ronald Reagan
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
~ Saint Augustine
Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
~ Thucydides
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~ George Bernard Shaw
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
~ Thomas L. Friedman
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
~ Norman Cousins
Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
~ Raymond Aron
When diplomacy ends, War begins.
~ Adolf Hitler
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
~ George F. Kennan
War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.
~ Jacque Fresco
Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.
~ Howard Zinn
Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
~ Laozi
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
~ Asif Ali Zardari