Donella Meadows Quotes

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.

While at present the people of the world are divided into various groups, calling themselves nations, while one nation defies another—in most cases considers the others as competitive—we, the workers of the world, shall stretch out our hands towards each other with brotherly love. To the fulfillment of this idea I shall devote all my energy, and, if necessary, render my life for it

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race