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Quotes About Peace

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~ John Burroughs
People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.
~ Pat Buchanan
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
~ John F. Kennedy
Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
~ John McCain
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
~ Bernard Baruch
I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!
~ Kinky Friedman
War that I have anywhere in my life should stop.
~ Byron Katie
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.
~ Carl Sagan
I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.
~ Margaret Cho
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
~ Juvenal
It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]
~ Tacitus
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.
~ Pope Francis
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
~ Charles Dickens
To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
~ Myriam Miedzian
I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.
~ Wendy Doniger
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
~ Salman Rushdie
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
~ Chief Joseph
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
~ Chris Cleave
The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.
~ Pope Francis
Accurst be he that first invented war.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist
~ M. F. K. Fisher
We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.
~ John McCain