Harry Graf Kessler Quotes

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

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

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

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

It is not good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace

We can't afford to be killing one another.

War would end if the dead could return.

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

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

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

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

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

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

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

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

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.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.

We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.