Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
— Cicero
Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.
— Michael Novak
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
— Will Rogers
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
— Theodore Roosevelt
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
— Thomas Jefferson
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
— Victor Hugo
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
— William James
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma
— John F. Kennedy