War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.