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

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

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

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.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

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.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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 quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

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

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

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.

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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?

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

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.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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?

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

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.