Gregory Gallant Quotes

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

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

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

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

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

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.