Lao Tzu Quotes

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

The best soldiers are not warlike

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

I've never really been a fan of violence.

We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

Violence isn't really my thing.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

There will be no fighting. We know that these fellows won’t fight.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes.

We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression.

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!