Quotes About Peace

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

I have very fond memories of my childhood in Afghanistan, largely because my memories, unlike those of the current generation of Afghans, are untainted by the spectre of war, landmines, and famine.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.