Peace Is Better Than War Quotes

#1. It is a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Peace is better than war. There's too much glorification of war and not enough glorification of peace, and especially not enough glorification of the importance of the doves.

Jo Walton

#3. It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

James Madison

#4. Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

Silius Italicus

#5. The coldest peace is better than the warmest war.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#6. Let's stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.

Widad Akreyi

#7. Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Albert Einstein

#8. A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. It's better to be a dog in peace, than a man in war.

John Scalzi

#10. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. 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.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#12. War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

Bela Kiraly

#13. Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.

Harry Patch

#14. I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Charles Peguy

#16. No military man is ever anxious to fight," said Cole. "We've seen war, and we've seen peace, and there's not a soldier or sailor anywhere in the galaxy who doesn't think peace is better.

Mike Resnick

#17. If we didn't know better we would love one another.

Aaron B. Powell

#18. Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Walker Percy

#19. I spent a lot of time when I was president, trying to end wars, prevent killing, and promote understanding. What I have seen is that peace works better than conflict, and one of the best manifestations of it is in travel and tourism.

William J. Clinton

#20. An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#21. Any peace is better than any war

Plato

#22. An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

Mark Twain

#23. The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

#24. Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Haile Selassie

#25. I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said.
"Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.

Erich Segal

#26. Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

Desiderius Erasmus