Haile Selassie Quotes

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

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.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

Borders cannot be redrawn in blood.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

Frankly, Senators, if nations may not safely agree to respect each other’s rights, and may not agree to confer if one party to the compact threatens trespass, or may not agree to advise if one party to the pact is threatened by an outside power, then all concerted efforts to tranquilize the world and stabilize peace must be flung to the winds. Either these treaties must have your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

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

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

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

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

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

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

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

A world without war is not in the cards.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.