Peace Quotes

"We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice"

John McCain, Politician

"If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

"The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

"When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think"

Yoko Ono, Artist

"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender"

Abba Eban, Diplomat

"War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands"

Beilby Porteus, Clergyman

"I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"I believe that every person has the right to live in peace and security"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war"

John Andrew Holmes, Journalist

"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight"

Samantha Smith, Celebrity

"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

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