Julien Benda 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.

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.

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.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through 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.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

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.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for 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.

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

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

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

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

People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

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

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

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

I want to work for peace, not for war.

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.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.