Peace Quotes

• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Peace

• President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Good
  • Relationship

• A consecrated Christian life is ever shedding light and comfort and peace.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Life
  • Light
  • Christian

• In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Today
  • Earth

• 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
  • May
  • War
  • Religious

• The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Real
  • War
  • Enemy

• The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Peace
  • Failure

• There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

  

  Elihu Root
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• Peace is our natural state of being.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Being
  • Natural State

• Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

  

  George B. McClellan
  • People
  • Universe
  • Powerful

• I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Judge

• Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.

  

  Pete Rozelle
  • Peace
  • Emotional

• That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • War
  • Poor
  • Pure

• War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

  

  Lena Headey
  • Amazing
  • Morning
  • Hair

• Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • World
  • Great
  • Friends

• There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

  

  Scilla Elworthy
  • Understanding
  • Building
  • Heroism

• Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.

  

  Blaize Clement
  • Learn
  • Nations
  • Dogs

• The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • War
  • Preparation
  • Discovery

• I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Peace
  • Fair

• Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Lies
  • Strive

• If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Present
  • Living

• All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Singing
  • Religions

• I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Man
  • Charity
  • Tolerance

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