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Quotes About Peace

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.
~ Coleen Rowley
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
~ William Shakespeare
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
~ Cyril Connolly
War is out of date, obsolete.
~ Dalai Lama
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
~ Shinobu Ohtaka
Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
~ Amy Ephron, A Cup of Tea
Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
~ David T. Dellinger
Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.
~ Uri Avnery
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
~ Richard M. Nixon
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
~ Ezra Pound
We still seek no wider war.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.
~ Ron Paul
Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.
~ Sun Tzu
I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.
~ Irene Hunt
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.
~ Steve Ignorant
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
~ Scilla Elworthy
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.
~ Jack Kornfield
I am sure that you will never end war with wars.
~ Nancy Astor
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
~ Cat Stevens
War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.
~ Cornelia Meigs
On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
~ Jules Verne