Society, Justice & Peace: Peace Quotes

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"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

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

"If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion"

Dalai Lama, Leader

Dalai Lama

"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries"

Harry S. Truman, President

Harry S. Truman

"Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it!"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

Bill Cosby

"How is it they live in such harmony: the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know?"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature, and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"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

Simon Bolivar

"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

Douglas MacArthur

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

Jacques Yves Cousteau

"If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Today I can declare my hope, and declare it from the bottom of my heart, that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero, and the world is a much better place"

Colin Powell, Statesman

Colin Powell

"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power"

Colin Powell, Statesman

Colin Powell

"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

Arthur C. Clarke

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"From now on, it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

Pope John Paul II

"Peace is produced by war"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"National isolation breeds national neurosis"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"Our nation must come together to unite"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way"

Anais Nin, Author

Anais Nin

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