Ralph Nader Quotes

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

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.

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

It is not our business to collect trophies but to try … [to] bring back the world to peaceful habits

You can’t have peace without a war.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

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

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

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

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.

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

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

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.

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

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 is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.