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Quotes About Peace

War is an admission of failure
~ K.J. Parker
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing is more important than to war on war.
~ Pope Leo XIII
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.
~ Eddie Vedder
We ain't goin' study war no more.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.
~ Bertrand Russell
America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.
~ Ronald Reagan
The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.
~ George Friedman
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]
~ George Herbert
There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.
~ George W. Bush
In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.
~ William C. Brown
In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.
~ George Friedman
We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.
~ Dalai Lama
Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.
~ David Lloyd George
Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.
~ Serzh Sargsyan
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
~ Eric Hoffer
Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs
~ Silius Italicus
I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.
~ Elton John
Near a war is always not very near.
~ Gertrude Stein
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.
~ H. G. Wells
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.
~ Ronald Reagan
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
~ William H. Seward