M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

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

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

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

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

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.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

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 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.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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.

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

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

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

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

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

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

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.