Peace Quotes

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
– Siobhan Fahey
I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.
– Brittany Murphy
I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
– Moshe Dayan
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
– Gunter Grass
I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
– Renee Fleming
I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.
– Diego Maradona
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
– Garrett Morris
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
– Linda McCartney
I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
– Chris O'Donnell
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.
– Ellen DeGeneres
I fought for peace in the fifties.
– Pete Seeger
I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.
– Norman Granz
I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.
– Brooke Burke
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
– Caroline Kennedy
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
– Yitzhak Rabin
I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
– Jane Fonda
I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
– Desmond Tutu
I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.
– Ariel Sharon
I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
– Sargent Shriver
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
– Muammar al-Gaddafi
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
– Martin Scorsese
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
– Sylvester Stallone
I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.
– Herman Cain
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
– Lester B. Pearson
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
– Wislawa Szymborska
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
– Isabel Allende
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
– Jesse Jackson
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
– Richard Cobden
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
– Edvard Munch
I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.
– Shimon Peres
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.
– Frank B. Kellogg
I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
– Imelda Marcos
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
– Francois Hollande
I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.
– Maurice Strong
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
– Lester B. Pearson
I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.
– Alan Dershowitz
I am a peace supporting Jew.
– Alan Dershowitz
I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.
– Ariel Sharon
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
– George McGovern
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
– Naguib Mahfouz
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
– Thomas a Kempis
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
– Moliere
He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
– Luciano Pavarotti
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
– Warren Christopher
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
– Heraclitus
God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.
– Michael K. Williams
Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.
– Ismail Haniyeh
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
– Richard Cobden
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
– Ann Coulter
For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.
– Gustav Stresemann
For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.
– Ariel Sharon
For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
– Ehud Olmert
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
– Nick Rahall
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
– Karl Liebknecht
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
– Irving Babbitt
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
– Camryn Manheim
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
– Thomas a Kempis
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
– Marianne Williamson
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
– Michael Morpurgo
Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.
– Lauren Conrad
Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
– Novak Djokovic
Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
– Hillary Clinton
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
– George Santayana
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
– Frank B. Kellogg
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
– Daniel Pipes
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.
– Brad Pitt
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
– Benazir Bhutto
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.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
– Swami Sivananda
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
– Frank B. Kellogg
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
– Karl Liebknecht
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
– Herodotus
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
– Kenichi Fukui
Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.
– Mohamed ElBaradei
Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.
– Michael Mandelbaum
Capitalism is war socialism is peace.
– Karl Liebknecht
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
– Natan Sharansky
But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.
– Lester B. Pearson
But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
– Paul Robeson
But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.
– Robert Falcon Scott
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
– Omar Bongo
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
– Yoko Ono
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.
– Patty Hearst
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
– Tony Blair
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
– Gerry Adams
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
– Bryan Ferry
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
– Elle Macpherson
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
– George Whitefield
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
– Wyclef Jean
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
– Mos Def
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
– Gustav Heinemann
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
– Isabelle Adjani
Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
– Jimmy Carter
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
– Saint Isaac of Nineveh
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
– Thomas Kinkade