Peace Quotes

"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war"

Jimmy Carter, President

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children"

Jimmy Carter, President

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Let him who desires peace prepare for war"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"In time of peace prepare for war"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"People always make war when they say they love peace"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"Peace is produced by war"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace"

Herodotus, Historian

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program"

William J. Clinton, President

"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

"It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes"

Imran Khan, Politician

"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

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