Anatole France Quotes

Bahais are not pacifists since we uphold the use of force in the service of justice and upholding law. But we do not believe that war is ever necessary and its abolition is one of the essential purposes and brightest promises of Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

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

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.

Our purpose is to abolish war and bloodshed from the face of the earth

Violence is absolutely not our method.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

I am a pacifist.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I'm a pacifist.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

I'm really a pacifist.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

I'm against all war.

I think war should be illegal.

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