Gustav Heinemann Quotes

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

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

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

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

We're not losing the peace.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

All who wish peace ought to unite in the means which may facilitate its attainment.

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

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is produced by war.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.