Stefan Molyneux Quotes

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

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

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.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace. The cause of War must be removed. Each Nation's rights must be secure from violation. Above all, from the human mind must be erased all thoughts of War as a solution. Then and then only will War cease.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

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.

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 never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.