Peace Quotes

"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Peace is the first thing the angels sang"

John Keble, Clergyman

"Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history"

Albert Reynolds, Politician

"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force"

David Borenstein

"The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars"

Anwar Sadat, Statesman

"My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child"

Shalom Harlow, Model

"Now God be praised, I will die in peace"

James Wolfe, Soldier

"The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace"

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Theologian

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia"

Woody Allen, Director

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace"

Victor Hugo, Author

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Peace is its own reward"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed"

Cicero, Philosopher

"An unjust peace is better than a just war"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Peace is liberty in tranquillity"

Cicero, Philosopher

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