Albert Schweitzer Quotes

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

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

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

You can’t have peace without a war.

There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war