Quotes About Peace

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.