Ellen Key Quotes

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

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

A world without war is not in the cards.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Education is the only solution for peace.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

When we, the Workers, all demand: “What are we fighting for?’… Then, then we’ll end that stupid crime, that devil’s madness--War.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

While at present the people of the world are divided into various groups, calling themselves nations, while one nation defies another—in most cases considers the others as competitive—we, the workers of the world, shall stretch out our hands towards each other with brotherly love. To the fulfillment of this idea I shall devote all my energy, and, if necessary, render my life for it

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

The cause of world peace is much more important than any individual.