What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

War settles nothing.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

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

The white man is destroying the world.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

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

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

A siege is an act of war.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

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.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

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?

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

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.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.