Peace Not War Quotes

Peace Not War Quotes by Ernest Hemingway, Ludwig von Mises, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Albert Einstein, Susan Sontag and many others.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impo

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
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Ludwig von Mises
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
John F. Kennedy
People do not make wars; governments do.
Ronald Reagan
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ‘realistically’; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.
Susan Sontag
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. Truman
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
Rachel Carson
The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
Marquis de Sade
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
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
John Donne
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy Carter
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein