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  • War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

    "Warrior" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2007.
  • 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.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    George Orwell's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.
  • But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

    Robert E. Lee (2007). “Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee”, p.89, Courier Corporation
  • If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
  • The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.
  • 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.

  • We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

    Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

    Mother   Peace   War  
    Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia
  • Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

    Respect   Peace   War  
  • Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

    Peace   War   Stupid  
  • I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

  • It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

    Freedom   Real   War  
    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press
  • Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

    War   Russia   Peace War  
    "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
  • All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

    Money   War   Battle  
    Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459
  • Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

    Peace   Brother   War  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286
  • I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.

    Country   Peace   Hate  
  • Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  • There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
    Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
  • No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.

  • Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

    Peace   Kings   Truth  
    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964
  • War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

    Peace   War   Reality  
    John McCain's Speech to the American Red Cross "Promise of Humanity" Conference, www.mccain.senate.gov. May 6, 1999.
  • [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.

    Money   Peace   War  
  • A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

    'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8
  • Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

    Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan
  • It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

    Peace   War   Men  
    "The Salvaging of Civilization".
  • The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

    Peace   Real   War  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

    Death   Peace   Grief  
    Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)
  • We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

    Peace   War   Sacrifice  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.109, Beacon Press
  • Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

    Peace   Money   War  
    "Achtung! Vorurteile". Book by Peter Ustinov, February 10, 2003.
  • It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

    Peace   Truth   Yoga  
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