Peace Quotes

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
– Ludwig von Mises
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
– Ludwig von Mises
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
– Ludwig von Mises
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
– Ludwig von Mises
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
– Ludwig von Mises
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
– Ludwig von Mises
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
– Margaret Walker
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
– George Washington
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
– Simone Weil
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
– John Greenleaf Whittier
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
– Elie Wiesel
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
– Marianne Williamson
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.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
– Mika Waltari
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
– J. Donald Walters
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
– Minoru Yamasaki
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
– David Borenstein
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
– George W. Bush
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
– Joseph Conrad
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
– George Melton
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
– Maria Schell
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
– Woodrow Wilson
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.
– John Ruskin
You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
– Benjamin Netanyahu
You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
– Naomi Watts
You don't kill your way to peace.
– Imran Khan
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
– Ulrich Beck
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
– Virginia Woolf
You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.
– Charles Schumer
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
– John Andrew Holmes
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.
– Paul Robeson
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
– Gifford Pinchot
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
– Dmitri Mendeleev
With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.
– Theodore C. Sorensen
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
– Xavier Becerra
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.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
– William Allen White
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
– Lin Yutang
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
– The Dalai Lama
Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
– Josh McDowell
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
– Doris Lessing
When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
– Javier Bardem
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.
– Charles Stanley
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.
– Wangari Maathai
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
– Jimmy Carter
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
– Paul Theroux
When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
– Jimmy Carter
When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.
– Michelle Branch
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
– Greg Kinnear
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
– Ann Beattie
When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.
– Rodney King
When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.
– Shimon Peres
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.
– Richard Gere
When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.
– Hassan Nasrallah
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
– John Major
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.
– Bertolt Brecht
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
– Stevie Wonder
What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.
– Sigmar Gabriel
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
– James Buchan
Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
– Susan Rice
Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
– George H. W. Bush
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
– Martin McGuinness
We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.
– Al D'Amato
We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.
– Rosie O'Donnell
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.
– Geraldine Ferraro
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
– Black Kettle
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
– Dennis Kucinich
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
– Anton Chekhov
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
– Martin Van Buren
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
– Marianne Williamson
We need new partnerships for peace and security.
– Anna Lindh
We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.
– Anna Lindh
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
– Yitzhak Rabin
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
– Paul Robeson
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
– Jean-Bertrand Aristide
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
– William E. Gladstone
We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
– Dave Matthews
We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
– King Abdullah II
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
– William Gurnall
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
– Oliver Tambo
We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
– Joichi Ito
We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.
– Ariel Sharon
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
– A. J. Muste
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
– Jimmy Carter
We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.
– George H. W. Bush
We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.
– Peter Yarrow
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
– The Dalai Lama
We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
– Hamid Karzai
We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
– Charles Foster Bass
We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.
– Mitch Albom
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
– Nastassja Kinski
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
– Theodore Roosevelt
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
– William McKinley
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
– Andre Malraux
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
– Gustav Heinemann
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
– Bruce Sterling
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
– Albert Schweitzer