Pope Francis Quotes

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

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

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

War can protect; it cannot create.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

True wars are never won.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Peace has its price, but it is much less expensive than war.

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

Nothing is lost with peace; all may be with war.

Make peace, you fools!

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

You can’t have peace without a war.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.