Quotes on Peace War

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.