Peace Quotes
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Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.
King James I
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lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.
Maximilien Robespierre
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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
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
Barack Obama
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
David Mamet
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I must say that 'Give Peace a Chance' has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
Pierre Trudeau
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God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.
Marianne Williamson
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I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.
Cheryl James
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My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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No one wants peace more than me.
Naftali Bennett
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The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
Jeff Sessions
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Relations between States and within States are correct to the extent that they respect the truth. When, instead, truth is violated, peace is threatened, law is endangered, then, as a logical consequence, forms of injustice are unleashed.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.
Pablo Casals
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I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
Omar Bongo
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Trees give peace to the souls of men.
Nora Waln
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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
Saint Augustine
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On one side was the pain of the victims of the earthquake, and on the other the pain of the victims of the riots. In decisively confronting this great turmoil, I had to single-mindedly focus all the strength given to me by the almighty, on the task of peace, justice and rehabilitation; burying the pain and agony I was personally wracked with.
Narendra Modi
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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.
Kelly Preston
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Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why Some are born, some men die, Beneath one infinite sky? There'll be war, there'll be peace, But everything one day will cease, All the iron turned to rust, All the proud men turned to dust, And so all things time will mend, So this song will end.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
Charles Bass
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For me, giving thanks is a sign of appreciation and gratitude that also brings about a deep sense of peace.
Wally Amos
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Lester B. Pearson
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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