Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
Daisaku Ikeda
Related peace brings ignorance. war brings arrogance. ignorance bings war, war brings arrogance, arrogance b... THOMAS PRICE As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives fo... DAN LIPINSKI With love and patience, nothing is impossible. -Daisaku Ikeda. DAISAKU IKEDA Is it men or women who work the
most in slaughterhouses?
Is it men or women who are
most involved in... O ANNA NIEMUS These men are worthy heirs to the tradition of Washington and Lee and Marshall, men who know their b... MAJ JOSIAH BUNTING Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. ELIAS CANETTI Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of... MAC THORNBERRY The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like... ASA HUTCHINSON War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other... PAUL VALERY Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay a... CHIEF SEATTLE Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection... JACK KINGSTON Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think ... OTTO VON BISMARCK I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of... MARY ROBERTS RINEHART People talk peace. But men give their life's work to war. WILL ROGERS You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and t... WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the... HERBERT HOOVER Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war. TOBA BETA The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the dee... DOUGLAS MACARTHUR All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony ... GERALD R. FORD The end of the century of war has not automatically ushered in a century of peace and humanity, TADATOSHI AKIBA As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in... CHARLES B. RANGEL The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know... SOPHIA LOREN You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P... LOUIS PASTEUR The price of peace can only be valued by the people who had suffered loss in war. TOBA BETA We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon ... THICH NHAT HANH Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war. TOBA BETA I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the... JIM GIBBONS Maintain peace with men, war with their vices. SOURCE UNKNOWN Let him who desires peace prepare for war. VEGETIUS Let him who desires peace prepare for war. FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all ge... LARRY GELBART The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't ... SOPHIA LOREN The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war insid... ROBERT KOGER Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace woul... WINSTON CHURCHILL Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who wor... DAVE PRICE I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Those who start war often know that because of their
high political position their own lives will no... PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper a... ALLAN GURGANUS The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be out... ADRIENNE MAYOR Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong. AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN The majority of people in this county and state believe in traditional marriage values. We know it's... MICHAEL LEWIS We want to thank all World War II veterans, their families and the American people who supported the... ED SOYSTER I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war GEORGE CLEMENCEAU As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in fl... KIM THúY I don't know a country in the entire world that has made faster progress from war, let alone such a ... PADDY ASHDOWN A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. GLORIA STEINEM We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak." ... RABINDRANATH TAGORE We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with th... CHARLES DICKENS The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds... DOUGLAS MACARTHUR That was not what men and women fought for during the war. BARBARA CASTLE Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-dir... JOHN FOSTER DULLES In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and again... YOKO ONO We are in a war, a very brutal war that has been waged against every Jewish person in the heart of J... EHUD OLMERT There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut... MARTIN SCORSESE Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. W... JOHN FOSTER DULLES Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn... STORM JAMESON These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of the... W. E. B. DU BOIS Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea... OMAR N. BRADLEY Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about pea... OMAR BRADLEY Peace must be more than the absence of war, HELMUT KOHL These are war veterans who fought for their country, and the army also has war veterans in it, ROBERT MUGABE They will not succeed, for we stand united in the global war against terrorism -- war that compels t... COLIN POWELL The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into obl... PENTTI LINKOLA We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our wa... DOC HASTINGS This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on... RICARDO ALARCON We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war. LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI Sweet is war to those who know it not. PINDAR Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thought... FATEMA MERNISSI Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing n... AMIT RAY We are really appealing to people who are strongly against the war; that is a really strong issue fo... FORREST HILL A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know no... JEANE KIRKPATRICK Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, w... ALICE THOMAS ELLIS Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body. CAROL P. CHRIST It was such a relief to know that war was over, that peace had come. JAMES STARNES We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exalt... RUSSELL M. NELSON Those who want war must come before the American people to state their reasons for such and allow sc... LOUIS FARRAKHAN It is not enough to say, 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward. VERONICA ROTH The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about... KATHARINE HEPBURN We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w... PETER GELDERLOOS The government of Canada is committed to ensuring that the country does not become a safe haven for ... GREG SCOTT When people picture conflict they think of men in bloody combat, but it's horrifyingly girls who are... MIKE AARONSON And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the ... TIM O'BRIEN New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service. TOM UDALL I liked the business more back before the war. Maybe there wasn't as much money then, but I know 10 ... ABU MOHAMMED It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turin... GORDON BROWN In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. ANONYMOUS In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. STANISLAW JERZY LEC History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and ... STIEG LARSSON The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace — the world and the heart know nothing a... ALBERT CAMUS War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and pat... JOHN STUART MILL You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really st... SHARRON ANGLE The choice of peace or war lies not with the Iraqis who ignored terrorism and intimidation to vote i... JALAL TALABANI We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or where will be blown to smithereens ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small grou... BOB SCHIEFFER If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we must be willing to ext... OCHE OTORKPA The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the rea... RANDOLPH BOURNE I don't want any more of our young men and women to die in this war. It was a bad war from the start... BILL MITCHELL
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