Make Peace Not War Quotes

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

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

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.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

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

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of 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 ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

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

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.