Peace - Quotes & Sayings

We want peace to be permanent.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.

Colin Powell

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Charles Spurgeon

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

River Phoenix

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Tawakkol Karman

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Thomas Merton

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Harry S Truman

When only a minority consisting of capitalists can enjoy the good life, while the majority of workers must endure hardship, they will naturally not be able to live together in peace and harmony.

Sun Yat-sen

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

Dick Van Dyke

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Colin Powell

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Lester B. Pearson

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Ellen Key

People of Pakistan want only development, prosperity, and peace.

Shehbaz Sharif

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Jimmy Carter

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Leon Trotsky

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

John Lewis

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Peace Pilgrim

There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord's presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy.

Joseph Prince

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Muhammad Ali

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

Duane Chapman

When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

Tyga

We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace - or, rather, a humiliating surrender.

Hideki Tojo

Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself.

Julian Lennon

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

John Boyd Orr

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

David O. McKay

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Wayne Dyer

I'm all about peace. I'm all about unity. I'm all about love.

DJ Khaled

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

Goldie Hawn

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Colin Powell

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Alfred Nobel

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Winona Ryder

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

George Armstrong Custer

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Mitch Albom

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

Willie Nelson

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

Bill Frist

I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.'

Haskell Wexler

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

Gustav Stickley

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

George W. Bush

I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction.

Joel Osteen

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus