Quotes on Peace War

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.