Society, Justice & Peace: Peace Quotes

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"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"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

Mahatma Gandhi

"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West, provided it is not based on brute force"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days, government had better get out of their way and let them have it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I believe that in every country, the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... We want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Now, if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"Peace is a natural effect of trade"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

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