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I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times ... — Maxwell Perkins

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. — Mahatma Gandhi

Focus on peace not on war.
Love, live, share and care. — Debasish Mridha

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation. — Jonathan Larson

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes. — Elie Wiesel

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. — Thomas Jefferson

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love. — Thomas Traherne

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war. — Nadeem Aslam

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence. — Amit Ray

Wars; in the past and in the present, they were not a solution - A peaceful solution is the wisest solution in the sense of humanity. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The war is won, but the peace is not. — Albert Einstein

Nothing lasted forever. Not peace. Not war. Nothing. — James S.A. Corey

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. — Abraham Lincoln

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it. — Bruce Sterling

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense. — Walker Percy

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war. — Laozi

Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony. — Debasish Mridha

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace. — Harry S. Truman

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity. — David Lynch

One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace. — Robert F. Hartley

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. — Mike Norton

The mere absence of war is not peace. — John F. Kennedy

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. — Elie Wiesel

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. — Fredrik Bajer

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models. — Bill Watterson

I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace. — Elizabeth Berg

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income. — Ludwig Von Mises

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care. — Debasish Mridha

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace. — Joseph Story

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists. — Nicola Sturgeon

It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. — Augustine Of Hippo

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom. — James T. Shotwell

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan. — Geraldine Ferraro

Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war. — Desiderius Erasmus

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without — Subcomandante Marcos

What our world needs now is not war for our earth has seen too much of its bloodshed but peace is what humanity truly needs — Timothy Pina

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them. — Widad Akreyi

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace. — Criss Jami

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live. — James Oliver Curwood

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. — Baruch Spinoza

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. — Jane Roberts

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. — Jane Addams

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they? — Napoleon Bonaparte

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun. — Debasish Mridha

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. — Desiderius Erasmus

So, if they hold aloof from you and wage not war against you and offer you peace, Allah alloweth you no way against them" (Qur'an 4:90). — Denise A. Spellberg

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows. — Paddy Chayefsky

A mind at peace does not engender wars. — Sophocles

War will not be able to bring peace - only love and forgiveness can do that. — Debasish Mridha

Pacifism, not murder, is precedent. To say that war presupposes peace begs the question; it does not explain how violent impulses can be overcome. In — Sarah LaChance Adams

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might. — Richard M. Nixon

We are not seeking ... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region. — Hassan Rouhani

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. — Havelock Ellis

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' — Vikram Seth

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. — Rufus Wainwright

Peace and not war is the father of all things. — Ludwig Von Mises

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. — William Hazlitt

This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace — John Greenleaf Whittier

Going to war to establish peace will not bring peace. It will just kill you. — Debasish Mridha

The issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation. — Richard M. Nixon

We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way of obtaining it is to show that we are not afraid of war. — Edmund Morris

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace. — Saint Augustine

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped. — Curtis LeMay

One can make war to everything - but not to Peace.

Puoi far la guerra a tutto - ma non alla Pace. — Adriano Bulla

Make LOVE ... Not WAR!
Give Our World Peace And Not Despair — Timothy Pina

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply. — Ulrich Beck

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.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. — William McKinley

You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack. — Patrick O'Brian

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. — Hermann Hesse

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed. — Catherine The Great

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me. — Mother Teresa

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. — Paul Hoffman

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen. — Denise Levertov

Real peace is not only the absence of war but the presence of God . — Osunsakin Adewale

The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation. — Raymond Gram Swing

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. — Zarina Bibi

The head makes war, but the heart makes peace. And, thankfully, the heart ends up ruling more than not. — Cat Winters

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. — Aristotle.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? — Isabel Allende

Peace is not an easy prospect
it requires greater bravery than does conflict. — Ozzie Zehner

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace. — Seth

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees. — Daniel H. Wilson

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat. — Bill Ayers

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason. — Willie Nelson