Joseph Bruchac Quotes

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

War can protect; it cannot create.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

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.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.