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Peace Quotes


"The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace."


"One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace."


"I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids."


"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."


"If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there."


"These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations."


"Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace."


"Stop turning every others battle into yours. Sometimes amidst of all the wars, all you need to become is the lighthouse, not the sword."


"War will not be able to bring peace-only love and forgiveness can do that."


"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."


"Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace."


"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."


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


"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."


"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."


"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way."


"What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record."


"God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it."


"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."


"I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all."


"If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace."


"Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security."


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


"My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace."


"The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace."


"I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing."


"A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq."


"I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world."
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