Quotes About Peace

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.