Albert Camus Quotes

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.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

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, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

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

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

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

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

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

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.

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.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

War ought to be no man's wish.

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!