Quotes About Peace

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

A world without war is not in the cards.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

Peace is produced by war.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.