Preventing War Quotes

• Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

  Maria Montessori

  War, Politician, Preventing

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• Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Blessing

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• Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Strength, War, Self

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

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Peace, Real, War

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• Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Too Late, Preventing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.200, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Morning, War, Thinking

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• When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Hate, War

  "The Quotable Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book edited by Elsie Gollagher, p. 219, 1967.

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• The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

  Max Lerner

  War, Way, Energy

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• Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Invention

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