Peace Quotes

"I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory"

Pierre Laval, Politician

"The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread"

Pablo Neruda, Writer

"I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you"

Linda Evans, Actress

"I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"The purpose of all war is peace"

Saint Aurelius Augustine

"Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region"

Paul Kagame, Statesman

"The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind"

Mos Def, Musician

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"We will not have peace by afterthought"

Norman Cousins, Author

"And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Capitalism is war; socialism is peace"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed"

John Conyers, Politician

"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"Give peace a chance"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"My ambition is peace and perfection"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

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