George V Quotes

The people who know war, those who have experienced it ... I believe are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

War would end if the dead could return.

Nothing can justify war.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

War is over if you want it.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

Our purpose is to abolish war and bloodshed from the face of the earth

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.