Quotes about war and peace
540 quotes from 231 people
- ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 36.
Roger Scruton1944–2020England and the Need for Nations (2006)
Henry Kissinger1923–2023The White House Years (1979)
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
Terry Pratchett1948–2015“I create gods all the time—now I think one might exist” (2008)
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973“A Secret Vice” (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 9, originally published in On Coalition Government (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, pp. 296-97.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881–1938“Adana Çiftçileriyle Konuşma” (16 March 1923); English translation as delivered in an address by Talat S. Halman (10 November 1995), quoted in The Turkish Times (1 December 1995)
Che Guevara1928–1967Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Martin Amis1949–2023Einstein’s Monsters (1987), “Introduction: Thinkability”War is a cruel business and there is brutality in it on all sides.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes, whose cousin was a prisoner and died at Andersonville prison (2 July 1864)In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961“In Another Country” in Men Without Women (1927).In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.
Susan Sontag1933–2004“Why Are We in Kosovo?”, The New York Times (2 May 1999)On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
L. Ron Hubbard1911–1986A New Slant on Life (1998).