Peace Quotes

"The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find"

Cornel West, Educator

"You have to make peace with life"

Cheryl Ladd, Actress

"I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice"

Corazon Aquino, President

"The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit"

Chen Shui-bian, Statesman

"We believe world peace is inevitable"

Anne Perry, Novelist

"The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace"

Ben Hecht, Writer

"The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt"

Woodrow Wilson

"To secure peace is to prepare for war"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"A conqueror is always a lover of peace"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes"

John L. Lewis, Leader

"The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers"

Ernest Thompson Seton, Leader

"Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions"

Sai Baba, Leader

"You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations"

George Ade, Playwright

"How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

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