Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

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

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

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

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

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.

War would end if the dead could return.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

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

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.