Peace - Quotes & Sayings

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Paul Robeson

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

Malala Yousafzai

Islam means peace.

Malala Yousafzai

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Tacitus

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Brad Pitt

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Salman Rushdie

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Thomas a Kempis

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

Thomas a Kempis

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Narendra Modi

I've often made critical comments about settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and in east Jerusalem, and my position hasn't changed. At the same time, it's equally important to me that the two sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, work towards a durable peace settlement: that's to say a viable two-state solution.

Angela Merkel

The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.

Thomas Becket

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

Kate McKinnon

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

Alanis Morissette

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Michael Franti

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Margaret Cavendish

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

TobyMac

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

Rula Ghani

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

Arthur Keith

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

Prem Rawat

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

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.

Anthony Burgess

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

Stefan Zweig

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Margaret Mitchell

Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.

Roger Ailes

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig von Mises

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

Sargent Shriver

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

Pierre Bayle

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

Marianne Williamson

Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

Harmon Killebrew

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

Steve Southerland

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

My ambition is peace and perfection.

DeForest Kelley

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.

Peter Capaldi

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

Taya Kyle

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.

James F. Byrnes

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

James F. Byrnes

When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.

Marilyn Ferguson

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

Jane McGonigal

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

Billy Carter

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

William J. Clinton

I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

Andy Grammer

Pope John Paul II was a man of peace, a friend of the Jewish nation... and worked for the historic reconciliation between the nations and for the renewal of diplomatic ties between Israel and the Vatican at the end of 1993.

Ariel Sharon

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

William Gurnall

If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

Anne Graham Lotz