«War and peace»

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Ronald Reagan

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Lester B. Pearson

I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People always make war when they say they love peace.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Omar N. Bradley

You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Geraldine Ferraro

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

J. Donald Walters