Louis Pasteur 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.

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

Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

I believe with unshakable faith that science and peace will yet triumph over ignorance and war, and that the peoples of the world will seek knowledge, not to destroy but to create.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

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.

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.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

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

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

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.

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