Quotes About Peace

Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

There's no war that will end all wars.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.