Quotes About Peace

Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.' It has been done.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.

Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.

Israel does not start wars.

I think that Americans - and this is not true just now, but over the years - are not fundamentally opposed to war. They're fundamentally opposed to losing wars.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.

The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make compromises - even though it did not lose any wars.

It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.

When are boots in the ground no longer going to have to even be people, and is that right? When does it become 'Star Wars?' When is enough enough? When do we put this time and energy into eliminating war or reasons for war instead of creating new technology to make war easier for us?

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.

Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.

Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.

A lot of people, when they say 'forgive and forget,' they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they don't haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

I'm a morning person so I like to be up by 6 am to wash and pray before the sun rises, and then have a tea at the kitchen table.