Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

A world without war is not in the cards.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence will pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm, and peace be venerable to men.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.