Pope John Paul II Quotes

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

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.

… the many armed conflicts which continue to afflict the world today present us daily with dramatic images of misery, hunger, illness and death. Without peace, there can be no form of economic development.  Violence never begets peace, the necessary condition for development.

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.

We must take the profit out of war.

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

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.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

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.

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.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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.

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.

I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.

A world without war is not in the cards.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

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

We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.

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

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