Quotes for Peace

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."

-Cicero

"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."

-Peace Pilgrim

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

-Desiderius Erasmus

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

-Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

-John F. Kennedy

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve."

-Vatican statement to the U.N., 1976

"War would end if the dead could return."

-Stanley Baldwin

"In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength."

-Buddha

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

-Albert Camus