John Jay Quotes

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

If a man smites you on one cheek, smash him on the other.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

Sanctions are a very un-Christian weapon.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

B.B.C. Board. We discuss whether the clergy should use the microphone to preach forgiveness to our enemies. I say I prefer that to the clergy who seek to pretend that the bombing of Cologne was a Christian act. I wish the clergy would keep their mouths shut about the war. It is not of their business.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

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

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

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

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

I think war should be illegal.