Boyd Rice Quotes

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

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

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

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.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

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.

We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

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

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.