Source: History of the Peloponnesian War
Peace War Quotes
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Peace War Quotes
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.”
“Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.”
“Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
“Peace and not war is the father of all things.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“There never was a good war or a bad revolution.”
Source: The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel
Source: The Republic and Other Works
“There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.”
Source: Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945
“We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.”
Source: Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950
Source: Memoirs: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.”
Source: Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.”
Source: The Nonviolent Alternative
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
Source: Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Force always attracts men of low morality.”
Source: The World As I See It
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”
“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)
“War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.”