William Faulkner 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.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

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

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

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

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

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

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.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

The world must not reward aggression.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

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.

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.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

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.

War would end if the dead could return.

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 don't support violence, period.

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