Quotes About Peace

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

We must not only imagine a better future for women, children, and persecuted minorities; we must work consistently to make it happen - prioritizing humanity, not war.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Making peace is harder than making war.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Accursed be he that first invented war.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.