Peace Quotes
War
We will
not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's
children. Jimmy Carter
Everything,
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, 1916
In war, there are no
unwounded soldiers. José Narosky
An eye for an eye will make the whole
world blind.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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.
George Orwell
The
pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse
military service. Albert Einstein
We first
fought...in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of
drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Serj Tankian
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 (1890-1969)
I hate
war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its
brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
War would end if the
dead could return.
Stanley
Baldwin
May we
look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments,
and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these
our possessions. John Woolman (1774)
We used
to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear
bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war
are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading
to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly
fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and
troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.
Tony Benn
During times of war,
hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade under
the guise of patriotism. Howard Thurman
Since
wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the
defenses of peace must be constructed.
UNESCO Charter
We must
not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I
think the soul of America
dies with it. Edward R. Murrow