Peace Quotes

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.