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Quotes About Peace

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
~ Vladimir Yakunin
Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.
~ George W. Bush
In war personal revenge maintains its silence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.
~ Will Rogers
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
~ Henry Rollins
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
~ Harry S. Truman
No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.
~ Hilary Mantel
In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
~ Townsend Harris
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.
~ Howard Zinn
I never believed in the danger of a third world war.
~ Indira Gandhi
Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.
~ Howard Zinn
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
~ Ram Dass
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
~ Ilka Chase
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
~ James A. Garfield
Poverty and War have no excuse.
~ Vanna Bonta
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
~ Howard Zinn
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.
~ James Risen
I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.
~ Jason Sellards
We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.
~ Jay Leno
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
~ Umberto Eco
Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?
~ James Rosen