Peace Quotes

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace"

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"We love peace, but not peace at any price"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without"

Buddha, Leader

"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government"

Grover Cleveland, President

"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons"

Herodotus, Historian

"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die"

John Lennon, Musician

"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal"

John Lennon, Musician

"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing"

David Selby, Actor

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace"

James Thomson, Musician

"And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful"

George Wald, Scientist

"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?"

Robert Plant, Musician

"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies"

Jim Costa, Politician

"The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population"

Paul Robeson, Actor

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