Quotes about War
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
— George Washington
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
— Thomas Merton
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
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.
We make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
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
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
— George W. Bush
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
— Albert Einstein
Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.
— Albert Einstein