W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

I'd never hurt another person.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I think violence can never be justified.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

Violence does not contribute to anything.

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity...

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

People hurt each other. That's what people do.