Peace Not War Quotes by John Donne, H. G. Wells, Cesar Chavez, John F. Kennedy, Benjamin Franklin, Baruch Spinoza and many others.
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
People do not make wars; governments do.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
