Peace Quotes

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Peace, unity and harmony!

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.