Yoko Ono Quotes

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

If the Welsh will not have peace with us, they shall perish at the hands of the Saxons.

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

If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.

We believe world peace is inevitable.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.