Peace Quotes

"Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history"

"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace"

John Lennon, Musician

"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding"

John Lennon, Musician

"Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something"

John Lennon, Musician

"All we are saying is give peace a chance"

John Lennon, Musician

"But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one"

John Lennon, Musician

"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure"

Moliere, Playwright

"Let us have peace"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"The greatest wealth in life is peace of mind"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

"Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help"

Kid Rock, Musician

"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious"

Kim Il-sung, Leader

"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault"

Robert Conquest, Historian

"But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible"

Julie Christie, Actress

"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"I was very active in the peace movement, still am"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house"

Islom Karimov, Statesman

"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

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