Quotes About Peace

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

Peace is more difficult than war.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions