Tom Shadyac Quotes

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Guns and blockades are not conducive to meaningful dialogue.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

You don't fight ideas with bombs.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

There is no money in this world that will make us fight.