J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

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

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

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

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings and actions that make for peace and freedom. Conversely almost nobody wants war or tyranny; but a great many people find an intense pleasure in the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for war and tyranny.

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

We're not ashamed to use the word 'peace.'

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Peace. Now that he is dead, peace will return to my country.

These are the stakes. To make a world in which all of God’s children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

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

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

People call us [Moslems] terrorists while ours is a religion of peace.

Peace has its price, but it is much less expensive than war.

Peace is better than a place in history.