William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

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

I have seen war ... I hate war.

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.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

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

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

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.

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

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.

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

Bahais are not pacifists since we uphold the use of force in the service of justice and upholding law. But we do not believe that war is ever necessary and its abolition is one of the essential purposes and brightest promises of Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

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