Benjamin Franklin Quotes

You can’t have peace without a war.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

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.

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

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

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

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

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.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

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.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.