Quotes on peace

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

Author: Mahmoud Abbas

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

Author: Abdallah Abdallah II

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

Author: Gerry Adams

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

Author: Gerry Adams

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

Author: George Ade

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Author: Isabelle Adjani

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Author: Theodor Adorno

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Author: Aesop

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Author: Anna Akhmatova

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Author: Woody Allen

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Author: Isabel Allende

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.

Author: David Amram

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Author: Norman Angell

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Author: Corazon Aquino

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Author: Hannah Arendt

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Author: Jean-Bertrand Aristide

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

Author: Jean-Bertrand Aristide

We make war that we may live in peace.

Author: Aristotle

I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.

Author: Craig Armstrong

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Author: Francis Assisi

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Author: Saint Augustine

The purpose of all war is peace.

Author: Saint Augustine

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Author: Warren Austin

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Author: Nnamdi Azikiwe

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Author: Irving Babbitt

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Author: Gaston Bachelard

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Author: Jan Balkenende

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Author: Honore Balzac

We want peace, but not at any price.

Author: Ehud Barak

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

Author: Haley Barbour

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Author: Bernard Baruch

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Author: Pierre Bayle

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Author: Melody Beattie

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Author: Xavier Becerra

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

Author: Ulrich Beck

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Author: Ahmed Bella

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Author: Pope Benedict XVI

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

Author: Robert Bennett

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

Author: William Bennett

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace.

Author: William Berkeley

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Author: Silvio Berlusconi

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

Author: John Bernal

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.

Author: John Bernal

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Author: Georges Bernanos

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Author: Wendell Berry

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Author: Ugo Betti

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Author: Benazir Bhutto

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Author: Benazir Bhutto

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

Author: John Boehner

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

Author: John Boehner

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Author: Omar Bongo

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Author: Omar Bongo

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

Author: Omar Bongo

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!

Author: Daniel Boone

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Author: David Borenstein

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

Author: Norman Borlaug

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

Author: Barbara Boxer

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

Author: Hjalmar Branting

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

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.

Author: John Bright

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

Author: John Bright

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

Author: Jackson Browne

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Author: Anatole Broyard

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

Author: John Bruton

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

Author: John Buchan

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Author: Georg Buchner

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Author: Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Author: Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Author: Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Author: Buddha

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.

Author: Frederick Buechner

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

Author: Bernhard Bulow

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

Author: Martin Buren

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Author: Anthony Burgess

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

Author: Guy Burgess

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Author: George Bush

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Author: George Bush

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

Author: George Bush

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Author: George Bush

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Author: George Bush

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

Author: James Byrnes

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Author: James Byrnes

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

Author: James Byrnes

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

Author: James Byrnes

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

Author: James Byrnes

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

Author: James Byrnes

I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

Author: Alex Campbell

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Author: Donald Cargill

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Author: George Carlin

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Author: Frank Carlucci

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Author: Alexis Carrel

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Author: Jimmy Carter

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Author: Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Author: Jimmy Carter

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

Author: Silvia Cartwright

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

Author: Rene Cassin

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Author: Brian Celio

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Author: Neville Chamberlain

I believe it is peace in our time.

Author: Neville Chamberlain

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Author: Anton Chekhov

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone.

Author: Jacques Chirac

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

Author: Warren Christopher

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?

Author: Warren Christopher

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Author: Winston Churchill

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

Author: Carlo Ciampi

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Author: Marcus Cicero

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

Author: Marcus Cicero

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Author: Marcus Cicero

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Author: Sandra Cisneros

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Author: Karl Clausewitz

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Author: Karl Clausewitz

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Author: Georges Clemenceau

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Author: Georges Clemenceau

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Author: Grover Cleveland

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

Author: William Clinton

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Author: Kurt Cobain

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Author: Richard Cobden

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Author: Richard Cobden

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people.

Author: Thad Cochran

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Author: Alexander Cockburn

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

Author: Edwin Cole

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

Author: Wilkie Collins

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Author: Robert Conquest

None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.

Author: John Conyers

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Author: Mason Cooley

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Author: Alice Cooper

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

Author: Wendy Cope

Peace is produced by war.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

Author: Bill Cosby

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

Author: Jim Costa