George Carlin Quotes

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

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.

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

We shall never war except for peace.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

The root of war is fear.

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

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.