Wanderlei Silva Quotes

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

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

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'