Gustav Heinemann Quotes

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

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

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

We shall never war except for peace.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Peace is produced by war.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.