E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes accomplish is to sow violence and sow death and suffering.

When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.