Tom Robbins Quotes

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

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

There are things more important than peace.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

War would end if the dead could return.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

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

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.