Herman Wouk Quotes

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

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.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

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.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

Peace is the necessary rational end of rational men.

It is not our business to collect trophies but to try … [to] bring back the world to peaceful habits

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.