Quotes About Peace

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.