Huseyin Cahit Quotes

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings and actions that make for peace and freedom. Conversely almost nobody wants war or tyranny; but a great many people find an intense pleasure in the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for war and tyranny.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

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.

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

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

We're not ashamed to use the word 'peace.'

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.