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Peace Quotes


"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."


"May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace."


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


"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."


"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."


"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."


"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."


"But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter."


"I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that."


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


"I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam."


"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."


"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."


"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."


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


"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador."


"For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place."


"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."


"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."


"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 the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace."


"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."



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


"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."


"It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents."


"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."


"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace."


"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."


"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham."


"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."


"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."
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