Julien Benda Quotes

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

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Peace is security.

Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

Peace is the necessary rational end of rational men.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.