Friedrich Schiller Quotes

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

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.

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

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

You can’t have peace without a war.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

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.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

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

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

Animosity is not a policy.

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.