Quotes about Conflict
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
- George Washington
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- Martin Luther
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
- William McKinley
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
- Alfred Nobel
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
- Abbie Hoffman
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 all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
- John Lennon
War with vices, but peace with individuals.
- St. Isidore of Seville
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower