A universal and perpetual peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts. It is still however true, that war contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped […]
Peace Quotes
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. Perhaps for a few people at some time in history there was such an age. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Peace comes from feelings of satisfaction when working with joy, living with hope, loving with abandonment.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
To have peace we should be willing… to pay any price – even the price of instituting a war – to compel cooperation for peace… This peace-seeking policy, though it cast us in a character new to a true democracy – an initiator of a war of aggression – would earn for us a proud […]
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it.
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
