John F. Kennedy Quotes

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

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 suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

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

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

A world without war is not in the cards.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

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.

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

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

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

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

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.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

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

War is over if you want it.

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