Maya Angelou Quotes

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.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

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

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

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

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

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.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

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

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.

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

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

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.

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

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

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

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.