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Peace Quotes


"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."


"Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland."



"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


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


"The purpose of all war is peace."


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


"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."


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


"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world."



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


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


"Peace is a natural effect of trade."


"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans."
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