Jimmy Carter Quotes

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

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.

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

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

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

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

You don't kill your way to peace.

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

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

It is not good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.