Quotes About Preventing War

#1. I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

John W. Vessey Jr.

#3. Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Maria Montessori

#4. Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. Prayers should be for preventing war, not fighting it.

@hg47

#6. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. We outrank the Agency here in the homeland. If they want a dick fight, we'll give them one.

Pamela Clare

#8. I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

Padraig Harrington

#9. We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

Ban Ki-moon

#10. Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Raul Castro

#11. Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

Naomi Klein

#12. War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.

Charles Lindbergh

#14. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Candace Bushnell

#15. I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.

Shakira

#16. We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

George W. Bush

#17. The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

Max Lerner

#18. Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

Carl Sagan

#19. Actually, I'm not super-kickass at a lot of things.

Nick Offerman

#20. To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Roger Zelazny

#21. There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

Maxime Weygand