Quotes on Peace

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.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

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.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

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

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.