Make Peace Not War Quotes

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

We make war that we may live in peace.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate – thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force…Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.