7,293 Quotes About Peace

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.