Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.
-- Jane Addams

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear
-- Aesop

War would end if the dead could return.
-- Stanley Baldwin

Peace is the best security If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
-- John Bright

The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.
-- Samuel Butler

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.
-- Philippa Carr

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.
-- Rachel Carson

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one!
-- Agatha Christie

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
-- Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.
-- Cicero

Wars never hurt anybody except the people who die.
-- Salvador Dali

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.
-- Dave Dellinger

War is a Crime To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
-- Albert Einstein

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
-- Albert Einstein

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility and its stupidity.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
-- Havelock Ellis

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
-- Henry Fosdick

There was never a good war or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. -- Ellen Glasgow

All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the w hole world to do the fighting for them.
-- Emma Goldman

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
-- Germaine Greer

"Terrorism" is what we call of the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
-- Sydney J. Harris

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
-- Vaclav Havel

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
-- Ernest Hemingway

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
-- Napoleon Hill

If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more war.
-- Abbie Hoffman

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
-- Aldous Huxley

Everything in war is barbaric … But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
-- Ellen Key

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
-- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.
-- Kathe Kollwitz

Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the earth? The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide.
-- Stanley Kramer and John Paxton

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.
-- Louis Lecoin

War is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood-feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity...a daily crucifixion of Christ.
-- Muriel Lester

There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
-- Abraham Lincoln

It has now become clear to the whole world that each war is the creation of a preceding war and the generation of a new present or future wars.
-- Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory
-- Livy (c 29BC)

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
-- Robert Lynd

Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.
-- Bible, Matthew 26:52

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
-- Colman McCarthy

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace
-- Helen McCloy

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
-- Golda Meir

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
-- Blaise Pascal

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
-- Katherine Paterson

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.
-- Pope John Paul II

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.
-- Katherine Anne Porter

War comes a the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.
-- Adrienne Rich

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

War…seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
-- Bertrand Russell

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
-- Carl Sandburg

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
-- Jean Paul Sartre

Everyone is always talking about our defense effort in terms of protecting women and children, but no one ever asks the women and children what they think.
-- Patricia Schroeder

War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.
-- General William T. Sherman

Freedom achieved by the sword is uniformly lost again, but … it is lasting when gained by peaceful agitation.
-- Herbert Spencer

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".
-- Max Stirner

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.
--Augusta Stowe-Gullen

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
-- Charles Sumner

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
-- Paul Valery

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
-- Duke Of Wellington

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals … there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!
-- Walt Whitman

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
-- Thornton Wilder

An insincere peace is better than a sincere war - Yiddish Proverb

Those who prefer victory to peace will have neither - Anonymous

 

 

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