Henri Rousseau Quotes

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

There has never been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man is the greatest protection against war.

War should be the last resort, not the first response.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man I think, is the great protection against war

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Make Love, Not War

The people don’t want an armed peace.

That he was so enamoured on peace, that he would have been glad the king should have bought it at any price.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.