Omar N. Bradley Quotes

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

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

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

These are the stakes. To make a world in which all of God’s children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

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.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

War can protect; it cannot create.

In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

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

Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

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.

Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

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

Man does not live by destruction.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.