Quotes on Peace

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

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

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.