Quotes About Peace

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

War settles nothing.

I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

We are not at war against Islam.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.