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Quotes About Peace

...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.
~ George Herbert
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
~ Gerrit Smith
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
~ James Russell Lowell
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
~ Thornton Wilder
I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.
~ Rajneesh
War is a bankruptcy of policy
~ Hans von Seeckt
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
~ Anthony Eden
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.
~ Rajneesh
The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
~ Hermann Hesse
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
~ Alexander Pope
Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have seen war ... I hate war.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.
~ Ronald Reagan
Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
~ Adolf Hitler
It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
~ John Dewey
Any peace is better than any war
~ Plato
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
~ Walter Kohn
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
~ Allan Massie
Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
~ Paul McCartney
First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
~ Alva Myrdal
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
~ Anatole France