Pope John Paul II Quotes

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with 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.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

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

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

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

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

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

I want to stop war, and I want to stop disease.

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.

You can’t have peace without a war.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?