Elie Wiesel Quotes

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

We shall never war except for peace.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

You can’t have peace without a war.

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

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

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

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

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.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

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