Peace Quotes

"The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace"

"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace"

Claudio Hummes

"We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Peace and not war is the father of all things"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

"The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny"

Mike Pence, Politician

"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight"

Sargent Shriver, Politician

"Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes"

Nguyen Cao Ky, Politician

"Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress"

David McCallum, Actor

"There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace"

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Theologian

Page 17 of 27