Elie Wiesel Quotes

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

You can’t have peace without a war.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

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

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.