Peace Quotes
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Peace for our time
Neville Chamberlain -
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
Paul Wellstone
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis -
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge -
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Desmond Tutu -
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Octavia E. Butler -
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
Francois Hollande
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We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.
Paloma Picasso -
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
Paul Theroux -
Spend all your time waitingFor that second chance,For a break that would make it OK.There's always some reasonTo feel not good enough;And it's hard at the end of the day.I need some distraction,Oh, beautiful release.Memory seeps through my veins.Let me be empty,Oh weightless and maybeI'll find some peace tonight.
Sarah McLachlan -
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
John Bright -
People always make war when they say they love peace.
D. H. Lawrence -
I must say that 'Give Peace a Chance' has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
Pierre Trudeau
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Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.
Ian Paisley -
This means that gravestones are fragile and granite is softer than wax. Absurd, absurd, absurd! From such absurdity I shall soon turn gray or change into another person. Why do you beckon me with your hand? For one moment of peace I would give the peace of the tomb.
Anna Akhmatova -
I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Carl Forti -
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
Omar Bongo
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller -
We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.
Barack Obama -
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt