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Peace Quotes


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



"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious."


"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."


"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 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."


"We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come."


"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."


"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 believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."


"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."


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


"The purpose of all war is peace."


"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."


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


"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope."


"The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it."


"I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot."


"I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country."


"We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks."


"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built."


"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."



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


"You will find peace not by rearranging the external world but by accepting yourself."


"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."


"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."


"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
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