Sargent Shriver Quotes

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

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.

Make Love, Not War

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals