Quotes About Peace

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.

There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world.

Disagreements will always occur between us, but we all approach them wanting the best for each and every one of us, for the whole people.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.

I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.