Pope Paul VI Quotes

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.

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.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

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

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

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

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.

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.