Best Make Peace Not War Quotes

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

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.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work.

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.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

War doesn’t make boys men, it makes men dead.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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.

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

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.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

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.

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.

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

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 time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

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

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.