H. G. Wells Quotes

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

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

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

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

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

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

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

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

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

I think war should be illegal.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

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

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

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.

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.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.