Peace Quotes
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
D. H. Lawrence
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I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.
Elliott Abrams
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
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Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.
Scipio Africanus
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Radhanath Swami
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Salman Rushdie
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The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
David Amram
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I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.
Peter T. King
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Every time I'm in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace.
Duane Allman
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.
Rani Mukerji
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I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
Ba Jin
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Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
Yehuda Amichai
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
Paddy Considine
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
Livy
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
Harold Brodkey
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We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
Douglas Jerrold
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
Ban Ki-moon
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For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.
Jimmy Carter