Veronica Roth Quotes

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

The world must not reward aggression.

It would win for us a proud title—we would become the first aggressors for peace.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

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

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

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

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

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

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.