Quotes for Peace

"Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn't murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn't murder lies; it doesn't establish truth.... Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn't murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems." —Martin Luther King Jr.

“To be against war is not enough; it is hardly a beginning.” —John Dos Passos

“Either war is obsolete or men are.” —Buckminster Fuller

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”—Jeannette Rankin (first U.S female Congress Person)

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not the neutral.” —Paulo Freire

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell

“Do onto other others as you would have them do onto you.”

“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” —Mohandas Gandhi

"I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love." —Martin Luther King,

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” —John F. Kennedy

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.” —Edward R. Murrow

“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Peace is constructed, not fought for.” —Brent Davis

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. —James Madison “That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” —Voltaire

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” —Albert Einstein

“Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.” —Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio

“If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.” —Thomas Jefferson

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” —Alexander Hamilton

“If God is just, I tremble for my country.” —Thomas Jefferson

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

"Dissent is the highest form of patroitism." —Thomas Jefferson

"If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention."