Peace Quotes

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

~ Helmut Kohl

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

~ Robert Gottlieb

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

~ Menachem Begin

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

~ King George V

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

~ Peter Yarrow

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

~ John F. Kennedy

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

~ Leon Trotsky

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

~ George W. Bush

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

~ Frank B. Kellogg

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

~ Paul Robeson

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

~ Xavier Becerra

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

~ Jimmy Carter

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

~ Dennis Kucinich

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

~ Sylvester Stallone

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

~ Ann Coulter

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

~ Calvin Coolidge

A bad peace is even worse than war.

~ Tacitus

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

~ Henry Cabot Lodge

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

~ Jeane Kirkpatrick

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

~ Lytton Strachey

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

~ Nursultan Nazarbayev

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

~ Cordell Hull

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

~ Serj Tankian

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

~ David Mamet

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

~ Barack Obama

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

~ Elliott Abrams

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

~ Jimi Hendrix

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

~ Radhanath Swami

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

~ Francis Of Assisi

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

~ Erich Fromm

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

~ Bruce Forsyth

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

~ Stevie Wonder

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

~ Bethany Hamilton

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

~ Mos Def