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Peace Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
- History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be…
- Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
- Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
- Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
- Peace and not war is the father of all things.
- The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept…
- If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their…
- War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society…
- The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a…
- The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
- Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
- The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
- Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
- The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
- If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
- Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
- Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
- To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
- War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
- [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth…
- Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
More Peace Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale