Peace Quotes
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Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.
Michael Douglas
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Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
Paul Robeson
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We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.
Jimmy Carter
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If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.
Heber J. Grant
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In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
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Tell the people of all landsю Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.
Country Joe McDonald
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Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.
Wolfe Tone
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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.
Michael Moorcock
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Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum
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Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
Lao Tzu
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If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.
Gautama Buddha
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There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
Harry S Truman
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Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
Norman Finkelstein
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf
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When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
Red Cloud
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I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais
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It goes without saying that the stability of the Middle East is the foundation for peace and prosperity for the world, and of course for Japan. Should we leave terrorism or weapons of mass destruction to spread in this region, the loss imparted upon the international community would be immeasurable.
Shinzo Abe
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NATO is ready for its new mission -- a mission to bring people back to their homes and to build a lasting and just peace in Kosovo.
Javier Solana
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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
George Bernard Shaw
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We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.
Barack Obama