Peaceful Intervention Quotes

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

He who saves you from war is better than he who sends you to war.

To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in its own nature most violent, and which, in such cases, is a remedy only because it is violent, it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting. Languid war can do nothing which negotiation or submission will do better: and to act on any other principle is, not to save blood and money, but to squander them.

Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

People that want to control words will never ever try to break up, like, a fight on a subway. They will never confront an aggressive person on the bus. They prefer their fights to be easy.

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 don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.

It would win for us a proud title—we would become the first aggressors for peace.