I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. -- Avril Lavigne

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.
-- Louis Lecoin

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 is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood-feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity...a daily crucifixion of Christ.
-- Muriel Lester

There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. -- Abraham Lincoln

It has now become clear to the whole world that each war is the creation of a preceding war and the generation of a new present or future wars.
-- Maxim Maximovich Litvinov

Certain peace is better and safer than anticipated victory
-- Livy (c 29BC)

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
-- Robert Lynd

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.
-- Douglas MacArthur

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. -- George McGovern

Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.
-- Bible, Matthew 26:52

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. -- Colman McCarthy

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace
-- Helen McCloy

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
-- Golda Meir

It is true that we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
-- Golda Meir

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
-- Eve Merriam

Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.
-- John Milton

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson? -- A. J. Muste

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization -- Philip Noel-Baker

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
-- Blaise Pascal

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
-- Katherine Paterson

"Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?" -- Linus Pauling

Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the earth? The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide.
--John Paxton and Stanley Kramer

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms but in mutual trust alone.
-- Pope John XXIII

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.
-- Pope John Paul II

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
-- Pope Paul VI

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.
-- Katherine Anne Porter

 

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