Peace Quotes

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
– Adam Smith
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
– Paul Robeson
Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
– Ariel Sharon
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
– Mike Pence
Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
– Walter Ulbricht
Let us have peace.
– Ulysses S. Grant
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
– Daniel Boone
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
– Fred Hampton
Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
– Pat Robertson
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
– Jonathan Shapiro
It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
– Brett Favre
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
– Roger Moore
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
– Lester B. Pearson
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
– Elihu Root
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
– Pierre Bayle
It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.
– Goran Persson
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
– Elihu Root
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
– Gerrit Smith
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
– Aneurin Bevan
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
– Frank B. Kellogg
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.
– Nnamdi Azikiwe
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
– Louis Finkelstein
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
– Condoleezza Rice
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
– Shimon Peres
Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.
– Alan Dershowitz
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
– Mandy Patinkin
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
– Nelson Mandela
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
– Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
– Sargent Shriver
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.
– Christian Lous Lange
In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
– Theodore Bikel
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
– Desmond Tutu
In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.
– Duane Chapman
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
– Paul Robeson
In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.
– Solomon Ortiz
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
– Gertrude Stein
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
– Arthur Keith
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
– Kamisese Mara
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.
– Anna Lindh
Ignorance is a menace to peace.
– Paul Harris
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
– Desmond Tutu
If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.
– Jim DeMint
If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
– Larry Hagman
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
– Marvin Gaye
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
– Linda Evans
If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.
– Ariel Sharon
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
– John L. Lewis
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
– Ben Stein
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
– Chief Joseph
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
– Mitch Daniels
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
– George C. Marshall
If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
– Rick James
I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.
– Michael W. Smith
I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.
– Gil Scott-Heron
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
– Paloma Picasso
I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
– H. Jackson Browne
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
– Mandy Patinkin
I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
– Sarah McLachlan
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
– Omar Bongo
I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
– Anthony Hopkins
I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.
– Sherman Hemsley
I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.
– Sean Hannity
I'm at peace.
– Christina Aguilera
I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
– Lance Bass
I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.
– Kelly Preston
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
– Francois Rabelais
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
– Robert Mugabe
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
– Kenny Marchant
I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.
– Jean-Bertrand Aristide
I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
– Park Geun-hye
I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
– Margot Kidder
I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
– Thurston Moore
I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.
– Tim Robbins
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
– Willie Nelson
I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
– Sargent Shriver
I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.
– Ehud Olmert
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
– Margaret Mitchell
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
– Elia Kazan
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
– Wangari Maathai
I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
– Jeane Kirkpatrick
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
– Shimon Peres
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
– Michael Ignatieff
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
– Jermaine Jackson
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.
– Richard Cobden
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
– Frank B. Kellogg
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.
– Benjamin Netanyahu
I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.
– Paul Robeson
I really love peace and quiet.
– Barry Sanders
I really am a woman at peace.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
– Thomas Paine
I pray daily... for peace.
– Paul O'Neill
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
– Julie Christie
I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.
– Mo Rocca
I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
– Liza Minnelli
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
– Frank B. Kellogg
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
– Paul Robeson
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.
– Frank B. Kellogg
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
– Frank B. Kellogg