Bernard Baruch Quotes

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Women have a great responsibility...to try...to prevent another war. I hope...that we will be able to use this great atomic energy...for peaceful work.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

In this age which boasts of its atomic power it no longer makes sense to maintain that war is a fit instrument with which to repair the violation of justice.

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

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.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.