Malachy McCourt Quotes

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

Take your guns, your knives, and your pangas, and throw them into the sea. Close down the death factories. End this war now.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

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

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.