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Quotes About Peace

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.
~ Jeffrey Donovan
National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.
~ Vanna Bonta
Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.
~ Jodie Evans
Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.
~ Jodie Evans
War should always be the absolute last resort.
~ Joe Biden
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
~ Terry Pratchett
We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
~ Joe Klein
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.
~ John F. Kennedy
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
~ John F. Kennedy
I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.
~ Jeffrey Dunn
There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.
~ John F. Kerry
There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.
~ John Lennon
Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.
~ John McCain
If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.
~ William Blake
The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.
~ Thrity Umrigar
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.
~ John Steinbeck
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
~ Theodore Parker
Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.
~ Joseph Addison
Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.
~ Josephine Lawrence
I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.
~ Juan Manuel Santos