Quotes About Peace

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

War ends only when people love each other.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

In violence, we forget who we are

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom