Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
— Rachel Held Evans
The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.
— George W. Bush
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
— Alfred Nobel
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
— Shimon Peres
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
— Golda Meir
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt