Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

What’s so civil about war anyway?