Peace Quotes

"The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years"

Peter DeFazio, Politician

"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well"

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong"

Jermaine Jackson, Musician

"Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career"

Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity

"This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people"

Jet Li, Actor

"It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that"

Diane Kruger, Model

"When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world"

Richard Gere, Actor

"We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me"

Lena Horne, Actress

"After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised"

William Lilly, Celebrity

"Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration"

John Dingell, Politician

"Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges"

Ernie Pyle, Journalist

"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week"

George J. Mitchell, Politician

"It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development"

Jinato Hu

"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace"

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Statesman

"I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian"

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Statesman

"The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up"

Daniel Pipes, Author

"Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time"

George Voinovich, Politician

"You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel"

John Boehner, Politician

"I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach"

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Statesman

"If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual"

Eisaku Sato, Politician

"If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country"

George Weah, Politician

"I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot"

George Weah, Politician

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