Peace Not War Quotes

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

It’s hard to deny that an alarming number of those who stood for peace, not war, were either killed by deranged lone gunmen or else died in suspicious circumstances. We refer of course to the likes of JFK, Martin Luther King, Benazir Bhutto, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon, to name but a few.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

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

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

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

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

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

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

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

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

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

[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.

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

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

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.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.