Home / Topics / Peace Quotes

Peace Quotes

Browse 8636 quotes about Peace.

Peace Quotes

“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”

May War Peace Total War International Peace World Peace Day International Peace Day

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“War makes rattling good history.”

War Peace Total War Good War Good History

Author:Thomas Hardy

“War makes good history but peace is poor reading.”

War Humanity Reading Peace Poor Making Peace Total War Make Peace Not War Good War Good History

Author:Thomas Hardy

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

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

War Peace Loss Instruments Anti War Antiwar Peace War Great War Total War Being At Peace

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Let him who desires peace prepare for war.”

War Desire Peace Military Total War Arms Race Military Power Preparing For War Wars And Battles Roman Soldiers

Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”

War Peace History Guilt Anti War Antiwar Foreign Policy Unnecessary International Relations Peace War Great War Total War Great Battle American War Politics And War Unnecessary War

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.”

World Wells May War Whole Peace Community Members Whole World Anti War Antiwar Total War National Community

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

“My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.”

Firsts War Earth Wish Peace Mankind Conservative Anti War Antiwar Plague 4th Of July Peace War Great War Total War Call Of Duty Bubonic Plague

Author:George Washington

“Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.”

People War Peace Results Selfishness Anti War Ubuntu Total War No War

Author:David Dellinger

“Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.”

“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“A bad peace is even worse than war.”

War Peace Rome Ubuntu Total War Ancient Rome

Author:Tacitus