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Quotes About Peace

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
~ Alva Myrdal
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.
~ Ronald Reagan
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.
~ Charles James Fox
If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.
~ Benjamin B. Ferencz
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
~ Tony Benn
War is not won by victory.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.
~ Dionne Warwick
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
~ U Thant
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
~ Indira Gandhi
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
~ Albert Einstein
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.
~ Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.
~ Henri Nouwen
For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.
~ Origen
America, like all nations, has to renounce war.
~ Benjamin Creme
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.
~ Brock Chisholm
If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.
~ Stanley Krippner
To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
~ Aesop
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
~ George Orwell
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
~ Robert Anton Wilson