Moshe Sharett Quotes

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

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.

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.

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

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

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

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.

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

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

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

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.

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

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

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.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

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

Peace is produced by war.

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

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.