Peace Quotes

"The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation."

"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."

"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."

"The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits."

"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."

"Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must."

"I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state."

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

"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."

"When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty."

"I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!"

"Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind."

"I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom."

"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace."

"I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth."

"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."

"Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way."

"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent."

"When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace."

"Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace."

"I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence."

"It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death."

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."

"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work."

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."

"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war."

"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."

"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt."

"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."

"We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken."

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."

"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."

"Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state."

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."

"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."

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

"Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means."

"As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people."

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

"I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine."

"Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong."

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure."

"Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character."

"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."

"I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction."

"Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace."

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."

"You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it."

"On all the peaks lies peace."