Khaled Hosseini Quotes

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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

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.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

The sad state of war makes it my duty to build.

The Moral Equivalent of War

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

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

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

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

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

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