Yoko Ono Quotes

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

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

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

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

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

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.

Violence and war lead only to death.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

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

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

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.