Yasser Arafat Quotes

I did not want bloodshed. I did not want my people killed. I did not want anybody killed....I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

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

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Bloody Ground

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

Violence and war lead only to death.

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 cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

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

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

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

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.