Quotes about peace

Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.

“What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.”

The governments hated the peace party even more than each other, since their existence now depended on war.

As the months of agony advanced, there was bred in the warring peoples a genuine and even passionate will for peace and a united world. Out of the conflict of the tribes arose, at least for a while, a spirit loftier than tribalism. But this fervour lacked as yet clear guidance, lacked even the courage of conviction.

What good is peace if it must be purchased with the blood of little children?

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever exist.

Wars need not be fought until the last drop of blood.

When there are no battles to fight, men start to think of hearth and harvest.

It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow.

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”

I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.

Often Burne found himself saying, “I don’t think you would make a very good soldier,” and with grating predictability he heard that he wouldn’t make a very good pacifist.