Quotes on Peace War

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.