Peace War Quotes

• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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• We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Science

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

  Pablo Neruda

  Peace, Art, Bread

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Peace, Political Language, Atrocities Committed

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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

  Martin Luther

  Memorial Day, Peace, Ubuntu

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Patriotism

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Reality, Web Of Life

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Patience, Peace

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Real, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Peace, Military, War

  "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

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• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  Garry Wills

  Peace, Military, War

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• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.48, VM eBooks

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• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Peace, War, Winning

  Autobiography (1977) pt. 10

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, War

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.68, Beacon Press

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Negative

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Mean

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Death, Peace, War

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• We make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  Strength, Veterans Day, Peace

  Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10, 1177b See Vegetius 1

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• You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, Military, War

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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