Peace Quotes

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.
– Robert Kocharian
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
– Horst Koehler
Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
– Wayne Kramer
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace;Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
– Satish Kumar
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
– David Herbert Lawrence
People always make war when they say they love peace.
– David Herbert Lawrence
A citizen, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
– Richard Henry Lee
In California, 50 women protested the im pending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president.
– Jay Leno
We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
– Carl Levin
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
– Wyndham Lewis
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
– Jonathan Larson
It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.
– Laurel Lee
The story - from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
– Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
– Alex Lowe
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.
– Tran Duc Luong
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
– General Douglas MacArthur
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
– General Douglas MacArthur
It's the same old boring thing, and I honestly think it's the truth-wearing sunblock, drinking water, getting good sleep and being at peace with yourself. Whenever I am tormented inside, whenever there's something going on that makes her hurt or painful, that's when I'll look my worst. And I think it's for everybody.
– Andie MacDowell
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.
– William Manchester
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
– Nelson Mandela
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
– Thomas Mann
The peace advocates are more interested in beating the conservatives than in reaching agreement with the Soviets.
– John McCarthy
I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace.
– Golda Meir
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!
– Herman Melville
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
– Thomas Merton
I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace.
– Walter F. Mondale
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
– Maria Montessori
The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.
– Sun Myung Moon
To attain this true peace, Jesus first sought to bring about a revolution of man. In this sense he came for war.
– Sun Myung Moon
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
– Marianne Moore
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
– Benito Mussolini
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
– J. Ramsay MacDonald
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, good will.
– Edward Marsh
I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
– John Frederick Maurice
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
– William McKinley
May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
– Giacomo Meyerbeer
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
– Lord Moran
Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
– Lord Moran
The cause of Peace has had my share of efforts, taking the ultra non-resistance ground - that a Christian cannot consistently uphold, and actively support, a government based on the sword, or whose ultimate resort is to the destroying weapons.
– Lucretia Mott
We will continue to fight the scourge of terrorism against humanity and reject the culture of extremism and violence in any form or shape, from whatever source or place, regardless of justifications or motives, being fully aware of their dangers as a plague that threatens the peace and stability of the whole world.
– Hosni Mubarak
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
– Robert Muller
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.
– Gary North
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
– Nursultan Nazarbayev
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
– Nursultan Nazarbayev
Peace is obtained by war.
– Cornelius Nepos
If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
– Charles Eliot Norton
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
– Basil O'Connor
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
– George Orwell
I walked out in the night a while ago. The stars are bright, the night is silent, the country quiet-as quiet as peace itself. Millions of men are in camp and on warships. Will they all have to fight and many of them die-to untangle this network of treaties and alliances and to blow off huge debts with gunpowder so that the world may start again?
– Walter H. Page
I love flags... I think of the men and women of the armed forces that fight to protect peace and freedom. When I was a very small child I went with my grandfather, who was a Lt. Colonel in the US Army and served the country through four wars - WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam - to Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It is one of my earliest memories.
– Robert Patrick
If you want peace work for justice.
– Pope Paul VI
You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
– Norman Vincent Peale
If we mourn for the death of any person departed, and the waters appear upon the face of man, yet after the seventh day, when the Olive leaf is pluckt, when we have considered the peace, and rest, and joyes of the souls departed in the fear of God, 'tis time for the waters to abate, for mourning to cease.
– John Pearson
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
– Peace Pilgrim
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
– Peace Pilgrim
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
– Robert Plant
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
– Colin Powell
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
– Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
– Katherine Paterson
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
– Edmund Pendleton
Our goal is unity. Our goal is peace. Our goal is economic recovery and stability.
– Fernando Poe, Jr.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
– James Knox Polk
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
– James Knox Polk
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
– Beilby Porteus
I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with it. My decision totally.
– Freddie Prinze
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
– Adelaide Anne Procter
I trust, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, that 2005 will provide new facts and will add new even stronger evidence of Bulgaria's strategic partnership with its European friends and the US. I feel sure this is going to be a year of strengthening the trans-Atlantic link, which is the pillar of peace and stability in the world.
– Georgi Purvanov
We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.
– Yitzhak Rabin
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavoury enemies.
– Yitzhak Rabin
Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
– Ronald Reagan
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
– Theodore Roosevelt
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
It's very, very important to understand that war is the result of a flawed peace, and we must understand the systems that are at work here. You know, we must understand that the resistance movement in Iraq is a resistance movement that all of us have to support, because it's our war, too.
– Arundhati Roy
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
– Aron Ralston
I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
– Albert Reynolds
I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.
– Albert Reynolds
What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.
– Albert Reynolds
A bad peace is even worse than war.
– Cornelius Tacitus
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
– Cornelius Tacitus
For me, I hope to continue to the end, my struggle and life, to see a democratic, federative, united, prosperous Iraq, that Iraqi people will live in peace and prosperity, and Iraq will use its huge wealth for the benefit of the Iraqi people.
– Jalal Talabani
The choice of peace or war lies not with the Iraqis who ignored terrorism and intimidation to vote in their millions, the Iraqis to whom I am accountable.
– Jalal Talabani
As I sat one night by the kitchen fire, the Spirit of the Lord came on me and I found myself suddenly weeping aloud and confessing my sins to God in detail, as I could recall them, and begged him for Jesus's sake to forgive them, with all I could not remember; and I found myself trusting in Jesus that it would all be so, and in a few minutes my heart was filled with peace and love, not the shadow of a doubt remaining.
– William Taylor
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
– Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile.
– Mother Teresa
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
– James Thomson
I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
– Thomas Traherne
For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
– Randy Travis
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
– Leon Trotsky
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
– Harry S. Truman
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one - to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
– Mark Twain
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
– A. J. P. Taylor
I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
– Boris Trajkovski