Quotes About Peace

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

You'll have an unbelievable sense of calm when you have a baby.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

Morality is contraband in war.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

The war is in our souls.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.