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Quotes About Peace

When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.
~ Jay Leno
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
~ Aristotle
If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.
~ Michael Herr
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
~ Karl Liebknecht
the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.
~ Vida Dutton Scudder
What if when they called a war, no one went?
~ Abbie Hoffman
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.
~ Edwin M. Stanton
I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war.
~ Kanye West
War is what happens when language fails.
~ Margaret Atwood
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
~ Thomas More
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
~ Carl Sandburg
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
~ Ruth Benedict
All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.
~ Norman Thomas
It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
~ John Redwood
We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
~ Bao ?ai
Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?
~ Jason Russell
The root of war is fear.
~ Thomas Merton
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
~ Tom Petty