A. J. Muste Quotes

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

A war is only as good as the peace that follows.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

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

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

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

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

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

How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

The concept of military readiness is well understood, but readiness for what happens after the fighting stops is just as important.

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.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

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.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than the massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

I cannot bear to see my innocent people suffer any longer. Ending the war is the only way to restore world peace and to relieve the nation from the terrible distress with which it is burdened.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals