Quotes About Peace

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

War is not a thing one wants.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.