Peace Quotes

"I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it."

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

"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."

"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."

"When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace."

"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."

"Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace."

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large."

"The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid."

"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."

"Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people."

"Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence."

"Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security."

"Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace."

"If you want peace work for justice."

"To secure peace is to prepare for war."

"Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."

"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."

"Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned."

"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."

"'War and Peace' may be the most epic thing ever created by a human being."

"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."

"Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with."

"To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam."

"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."

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction."

"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men."

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

"When only a minority consisting of capitalists can enjoy the good life, while the majority of workers must endure hardship, they will naturally not be able to live together in peace and harmony."

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

"There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail."

"Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace."

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

"I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace."

"The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East."

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear."

"The end of art is peace."

"I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."

"Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women."

"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

"Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree."

"You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win."

"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."