Make Peace Not War Quotes - Page 4

• We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Memorial Day, Peace

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Crime

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• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Empires

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• Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Peace, War

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Political, Due Process Of Law, Conformity

  "Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" (television documentary), 7 Mar. 1954

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• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  Garry Wills

  Peace, Military, War

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• War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  War, Outcomes, Way

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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• The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

  Basil O'Connor

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Hate, War

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• If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

  Frederick The Great

  War, Army, Thinking

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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, Patriotic, President

  Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

  Robert Fulghum

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Peace

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Guarantees

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the boundaries of human understanding. We must be doctors who can cure the virus of violence. We must be soldiers of peace who can do more than preach to the choir. And we must be artists who will make the world our masterpiece.

  Paul K. Chappell

  Peace, War, Artist

  Paul K. Chappell (2013). “The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World”, p.20, Easton Studio Press LLC

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• Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Attitude, War

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• 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

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Lying

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Father, War

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.44, VM eBooks

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• People do not make wars; governments do.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Government

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

  Aristide Briand

  Peace, Writing, Gun

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• The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

  Ellen Key

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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