Wayne Dyer Quotes

Peace is not just a matter of the absence of violence. It is also necessarily about removing the potential for violence – namely the uncontrolled possession of weapons. It would be naive to believe that anybody can be at ease when it is known that a potential opponent is stockpiling arms, even if the latter swears on whatever he or she believes, that the weapons will not be used. Weapons are meant to be used and pretexts will eventually be found for their use at some point or the other.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

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.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

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.

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I think war should be illegal.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

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

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

The people don’t want an armed peace.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

If mankind hated war, there would be millions of us and only two soldiers.