Peace Quotes

War is over ... If you want it.

~ John Lennon

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

~ Laini Taylor

It is not enough to win a war, it is more important to organize the peace.

~ Aristotle

How come we play war and not peace?Too few role models.

~ Bill Watterson

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

~ Jeanne Duprau

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

~ Sun Tzu

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

~ H. Havelock Ellis

In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.

~ Winston S. Churchill

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

~ Thomas Mann

this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will fight if we are forced to but the fundamental goal of r/evolution must be peace.we need a r/evolution of the mind. we need a r/evolution of the heart. we need a r/evolution of the spirit. the power of the people is stronger than any weapon. a people’s r/evolution can’t be stopped. we need to be weapons of mass construction. weapons of mass love. it’s not enough just to change the system. we need to change ourselves. we have got to make this world user friendly. user friendly.are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger. to sacrifice to end colonialism. to end neo-colonialism. to end racism. to end sexism.r/evolution means the end of exploitation. r/evolution means respecting people from other cultures. r/evolution is creative.r/evolution means treating your mate as a friend and an equal. r/evolution is sexy.r/evolution means respecting and learning from your children. r/evolution is beautiful.r/evolution means protecting the people. the plants. the animals. the air. the water. r/evolution means saving this planet.r/evolution is love.

~ Assata Shakur

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

~ Alan Moore

Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.

~ Margot Benary-Isbert

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

~ Ronald Reagan

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

~ George Washington

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

~ Rae Carson

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

~ Naomi Klein

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

~ Terry Pratchett

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

~ Tony Benn

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

~ Jimmy Carter

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

~ Masashi Kishimoto

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

~ Erasmus

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

~ James Oliver Curwood

Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.

~ Tracy Chapman

I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.' Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.' Do you know what they fought about?' said I. No,' he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

~ Anna Sewell

When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankind should always stay united, standing shoulder to shoulder so evil can never cheat and divide them.

~ Suzy Kassem

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

~ Criss Jami

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

~ George Orwell

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in

~ Arundhati Roy

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

~ Rachel Caine

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

~ Erasmus

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

~ Henry Kissinger

He was safe for the moment, here in the playground, but people all over the world were suffering, starving, fleeing, killing one another as they waged their wars. How much energy they put into harming one another. How little into saving. Would it ever change? What would it take to make it change? He thought of Luxa's hand pressed into Ripred's paw. That's what it would take. People rejecting war. Not one or two, but all of them. Saying it was an unacceptable way to solve their differences. By the look of things, the human race had a lot of evolving to do before that happened. Maybe it was impossible. But maybe it wasn't. Like Vikus said, nothing would happen unless you hoped it could. If you had hope, maybe you could find the way to make things change. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

~ Suzanne Collins

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

~ Horace

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

~ Mark Lawrence

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

~ Albert Camus

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

~ Willie Nelson

Acknowledgements! My thanks to HollywoodWhen you showed me John RamboStitching up his arm with no anaestheticAnd giving them “a war they won’t believe”I knew then my calling, the job for meThanks also to the recruitment advertsFor showing me soldiers whizzing around on skisAnd for sending sergeants to our schoolTo tell us of the laughs, the great food, the payThe camaraderieI am, dear taxpayer, forever in your debtYou paid for my all-inclusive pilgrimageOne year basking in the Garden of Eden(I haven’t quite left yet)Thanks to Mum and thanks to DadFuck it,Thanks to every parentFlushing with pride for their brave young ladsBuying young siblings toy guns and toy tanksWaiting at the airportWaving their flags

~ Danny Martin