Antiwar Quotes Quotes

“My arms are always open for you. Come, come on in. I am peace and my surname is humanity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected

“The war will end someday. The only question is: why can’t we end it immediately? Let’s end it right now. Let us live in peace and rebuild. We don’t need anything else. We have sunflower seeds in our hearts. We will blossom again and rejuvenate the world.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“You idiots who choose not to surrender in battle and die to be heroes, listen! You are not as brave as delicate flowers who take every opportunity to live because choosing life is the greatest courage!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Those who deserve war medals are only those who did not take up arms in war and never resorted to violence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A teaspoonful of peace is all we need to irrigate our hope and purify our soul.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“When war begins somewhere, the attacking party is guilty; but if the war is going on, then both sides are guilty because when it comes to war the only thing that matters is that the killings stop immediately and if surrender is going to stop the killing then it has to be done! It is unacceptable for the present generations to die for the freedom of the next generations because to live is the right of every generation! Surrender is not defeat, you can surrender and continue the war with non-violent methods!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Come, come and sit beside me and watch the Sun and Sunflowers toast each other and perceive that peace is just a drink away from the eternity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Everything that the sword can solve is immoral because there is no morality in violence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I have found it.
It is alive.
Peace is not dead.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Peace will claw its way out, anyhow.
War cannot bury it forever.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The people we want to see devastated in a war are not ordinary people who are innocent victims of war, but despicable politicians who started this war!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you take shelter in a cabin in the woods while everyone else is fighting, everyone will call you a coward, not knowing that you are afraid not of dying but of killing, that you are fleeing from the war just to protect your humanity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I’m scared. I’m scared of the dawn. I’m scared of dusk. I’m scared of anything in between. I’m scared of everything. I’m waiting for peace. Then I know, I won’t be scared of anything.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Peace isn’t
dead and buried.
It is only in a coma.
It will spring to life
again soon.
Very soon”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Violence takes the edge of life off.
It is that lethal and scary.
Life doesn’t need it.
Life needs peace”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Peace never came. Maybe we’d never wanted it from inside. We need geopolitical drama, we need commotion, we need a divide-and-rule policy, and we need to sell weapons and ammunition. We need profit. Who needs peace?”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“If a commander can achieve a victory in a war by keeping all his own soldiers alive and without killing the enemy soldiers, that is a real victory! Is such a victory possible? No, it's not possible, that's why there is never victory in war, and if there is, it is only the victory of death!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I wish I could give you a flower and recite a poem for you. But they say you’re comfortable with a gun in your hand, and flowers mean nothing to you. Is it true? Please throw the gun away. Let us hold hands.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“There is nothing more precious than a child’s smile in this world. But many children aren’t able to smile now. We must create an environment for them to thrive and smile forever.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“When we try to make the world a slightly more peaceful place to be, the world also conspires to bless us with peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“War is a crime of mass murder; deciding on war is a crime; the war industry is a crime; participating in war is a crime; working in the war industry is a crime; warmongering is a crime; everything related to war is a great crime!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Let there be no unnecessary expenditure of power. Let there be flowers.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Competition, no matter how friendly, dampens one and brightens the other, tears for one, smiles for the other yet we all want peace, why compete?”
― Enoble Asuquo , Sign of Humanity : Peace over war

“Be calm in anger and bear fruits of peace, let war eat from your tree of peace.”
― Enoble Asuquo, Sign of Humanity : Peace over war

“You look at the wars in the world and are surprised, but the world has always been like this, always wild, always rude and cruel, never civilized! Why are you surprised when you look at the world that has always been like this? Are you stupid?”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Peace is one thing we all want and the thing we all need. But the problem is that we spend lots of time waiting for the war to stop instead of taking steps to end it.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“There is no greater joy than peace.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Deep down there is the feeling that what we participated in was morally wrong, and can never be looked upon as legitimate. We can make all kinds of excuses, but it can never justify the murder, the savagery and the barbarism that was inflicted on the Vietnamese people under the guise of saving the world from communism.”
― Terry Burstall, The Soldiers' Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966

“Vietnam was never a threat to America or Australia, but it was a threat to their perceived interests. For those selfish interests we fought and were maimed and died. It was not for patriotism, and not to save freedom or humanity: it was to save vested interests.”
― Terry Burstall, The Soldiers' Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966

“There are big things to worry about and the issues like climate change, hunger, poverty, violence, biodiversity loss, unemployment, racism, and war are not going to be solved easily. But despite their grim predictions, I am hopeful. I am already seeing the light. A rustle of wind in the grass makes me dream.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya