Peace Quotes

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

~ Bill Frist

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

~ Michael Jordan

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

~ Ingrid Newkirk

China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.

~ Hillary Clinton

The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.

~ Martin Mcguinness

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

~ Alcee Hastings

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

~ Benito Juárez

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

~ Hugo Chavez

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

~ Herbert Hoover

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

~ Eddie Bernice Johnson

The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

~ Hakeem Olajuwon

We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.

~ Timothy Dolan

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

~ Lester B. Pearson

I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.

~ Juanes

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

~ Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

~ Frank Abagnale

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

~ Douglas Macarthur

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

~ George Washington

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

~ Chung Mong-Joon

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

~ Vladimir Putin

We make war that we may live in peace.

~ Aristotle

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

~ John F. Kennedy

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

~ Herodotus

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

~ John F. Kennedy

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

~ Heraclitus

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

~ Ulysses S. Grant

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

~ Al Franken

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

~ Omar N. Bradley

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

~ Kin Hubbard

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

~ Martin Luther King

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

~ Meir Kahane

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

~ Yasser Arafat

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

~ William Mckinley