Peace Quotes

• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • War
  • Peace

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • World
  • Today
  • Achieving

• Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Opinion

• I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

  

  Erich Ludendorff
  • Christianity
  • International
  • Superstitions

• To meet our troops was just wonderful, and I really, really admired the Iraqi security forces I met. I felt like, 'I'm pulling for you guys.' They want peace. They're working hard for it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Want
  • Peace
  • Working Hard

• Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Work
  • Justice

• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • Strength

• If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • War
  • Song
  • Peace

• 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
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Now

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Men
  • May
  • Age

• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Character
  • War
  • Strength

• I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

  

  James Cameron
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Soldier

• Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Yourself

• We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be prepared to be fully informed of all that goes on and unhesitatingly discharge any men connected with this movement. In this way, our peace will be secure for a long time, and it will be easily done if taken at the start.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• 'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'

  

  A. J. Muste
  • World
  • Song
  • Peace

• If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

  

  Ajahn Brahm
  • Know
  • Peace
  • Need

• I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Love
  • Grateful

• Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Children
  • May

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