Society, Justice & Peace: Peace Quotes

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"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"The art of creation is older than the art of killing"

Edward Koch, Politician

"Terrorism has no religion, no nationality, and no humanity. We must all work together to fight this evil"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

Moustapha Akkad

"Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime"

Alan Autry, Actor

"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace"

John Russell, Actor

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world"

Etty Hillesum, Lawyer

"It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces"

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Statesman

"At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"We make war that we may live in peace"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

Wangari Maathai

"The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

Queen Elizabeth II

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"Violence is my last option"

Chuck Norris, Actor

Chuck Norris

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

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

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

Anton Chekhov

"Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately, violence is never a solution in human affairs"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

Joseph Rotblat

"A conqueror is always a lover of peace"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

Jawaharlal Nehru

"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Nothing can justify war"

Isaac Rosenberg, Poet

Isaac Rosenberg

"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown"

John Buchan, Politician

John Buchan

"War is over if you want it"

Yoko Ono, Artist

Yoko Ono

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results"

Alfred Nobel, Scientist

Alfred Nobel

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