Thurston Moore Quotes

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

The mere absence of war is not peace.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

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

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

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

The normal state of mankind is war and peace is an aberration.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

Food is as important to armies as ammunition—but more important than either is an unfailing supply of lies. You simply cannot murder your enemy in the most efficient manner if you know he is in every essential the same kind of a man as yourself.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

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

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.