744 Quotes Found
"When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch."
"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
"President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security."
"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace."
"We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace."
"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war."
"We need new partnerships for peace and security."
"We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country."
"The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community."
"War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it."
"One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security."
"In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure."
"I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe."
"What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel."
"The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250, 000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country."
"Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible."
"The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace."
"The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe."
"War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves."
"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
"The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity."
"I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live."
"You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon."
"War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed."
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
"We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together."
"I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love."
"People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time."
"God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back."
"You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply."
"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."
"World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace."
"The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment."
"When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth."
"Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing."
"He wants only to rest and to have a little peace."
"I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history."
"Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy."
"Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks."
"In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance."
"Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind."
"This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace."
"I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind."
"Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference."
"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."
"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
"The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace."
"No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence."
"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."
"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."
"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."
"It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved."
"We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life."
"Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability."
"There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way."
"But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here."
"With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world."
"As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace."
"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."
"Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region."
"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility."
"Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me."
"Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace."
"But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people."
"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"
"Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind."
"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."
"The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality."
"I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace."
"The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace."
"There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world."
"Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history."
"The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics."
"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify."
"The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature."
"I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace."
"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others."
"United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony."
"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."
"Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives."
"A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies."
"Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons."
"All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind."
"My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world."
"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."
"Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth."
"I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours."
"We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan."
"TRUE, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."
"Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world."
"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice."
"Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security."
"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."
"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans."
"The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve."
"To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag."
"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."
"I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad."
"Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia."
"The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another."
"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism."
"To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war."
"The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace."
"Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking."
"Peace and not war is the father of all things."
"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."
"When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world."
"But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour."
"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."
"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."
"The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition that's how we bring peace."
"Ignorance is a menace to peace."
"It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation."
"Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize."
"But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid."
"But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability."
"I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!"
"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 work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian."
"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."
"Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations."
"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."
"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily."
"For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps."
"We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it."
"Winning the peace is harder than winning the war."
"Peace is important for Israel."
"I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity."
"For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace."
"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."
"I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace."
"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have."
"If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy."
"The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance."
"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."
"Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?"
"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."
"One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era."
"The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace."
"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?"
"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."
"I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world."
"We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace."
"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."
"When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart."
"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
"In time of peace prepare for war."
"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."
"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."
"When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it."
"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful."
"The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace."
"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me."
"Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both."
"I was very active in the peace movement, still am."
"To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood."
"Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace."
"By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail."
"On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed."
"Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace."
"The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel."
"I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world."
"I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict."
"Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world."
"It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace."
"There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace."
"I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace."
"I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples."
"These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations."
"I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples."
"To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone."
"The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it."
"My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process."
"I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer."
"Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all."
"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
"I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about."
"I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis, ' office parties and cookies."
"Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems."
"Peace, unity and harmony!"
"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."
"In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program."
"Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny."
"I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday."
"Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace."
"My different personalities leave me in peace now."
"The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement."
"Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace."
"The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability."
"I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance."
"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."
"Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace."
"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."
"I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive."
"I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam."
"Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well."
"It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East."
"The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region."
"Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality."
"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace."
"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham."
"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."
"We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come."
"Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security."
"Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today."
"There are laws for peace as well as war."
"The purpose of all war is peace."
"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that."
"Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it."
"I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act."
"A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace."
"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies."
"Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace."
"This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people."
"Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III."
"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."
"I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States."
"The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations."
"It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct."
"I really love peace and quiet."
"The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption."
"War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously."
"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."
"The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world."
"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
"I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed."
"Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly."
"Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace."
"We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves."
"Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."
"It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then."
"I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity."
"Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight."
"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach."
"Capitalism is war socialism is peace."
"We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace."
"I fought for peace in the fifties."
"I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender."
"When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources."
"Peace without justice is tyranny."
"I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids."
"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions."
"The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction."
"It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world."
"I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award."
"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."
"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction."
"One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history."
"I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged."
"Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace."
"I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet."
"We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions."
"I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving."
"I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people."
"If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues."
"I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace."
"Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time."
"For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people."
"Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians."
"We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides."
"That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."
"Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's."
"I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly."
"I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood."
"Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together."
"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."
"We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace."
"The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy."
"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting."
"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."
"Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein."
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
"If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"
"But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"
"I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches."
"The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."
"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
"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."
"Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!"
"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."
"I pray daily... for peace."
"My message is all about peace."
"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
"I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home."
"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."
"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."
"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."
"Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa."
"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body."
"Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul."
"The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis."
"The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?"
"The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace."
"He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace."
"Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice."
"I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!"
"You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace."
"Arafat was a barrier to peace."
"All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in."
"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality."
"I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?"
"Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance."
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
"The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself."
"The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it."
"Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight."
"The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness."
"Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace."
"If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy."
"When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books."
"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity."
"May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage."
"I really am a woman at peace."
"A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul."
"I've always been proud that my name stands for peace."
"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear."
"Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace."
"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way."
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."
"Peace is a natural effect of trade."
"I believe it is peace in our time."
"Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am."
"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."
"When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace."
"It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use."
"Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it."
"Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace."
"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."
"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
"We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
"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."
"I am a peace supporting Jew."
"I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967."
"Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States."
"The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development."
"I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU."
"I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing."
"Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace."
"The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace."
"Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom."
"Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace."
"In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace."
"Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ."
"I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything."
"If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life."
"When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense."
"Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live."
"The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage."
"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
"You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire."
"I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent."
"Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan."
"We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace."
"Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
"To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order."
"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."
"I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace."
"It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted."
"Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace."
"Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side."
"The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart."
"Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?"
"Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war."
"All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are."
"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace."
"Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God."
"He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure."
"I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me."
"It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts."
"My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace."
"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."
"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."
"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."
"This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
"Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done."
"Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace."
"The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel."
"The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety."
"We will not have peace by afterthought."
"Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop."
"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."
"I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside."
"I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies."
"It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that."
"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace."
"Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together."
"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
"But only art and music have the power to bring peace."
"It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces."
"You don't kill your way to peace."
"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"
"I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process."
"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
"Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down."
"You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it."
"I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result."
"You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state."
"Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way."
"You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'"
"But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus."
"Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help."
"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."
"For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance."
"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars."
"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."
"Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes."
"Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction."
"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
"If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you."
"We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation."
"But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter."
"Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood."
"The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically."
"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."
"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars."
"I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy."
"Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush."
"I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace."
"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men."
"The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail."
"Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever."
"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
"We love peace, but not peace at any price."
"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."
"In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East."
"Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety."
"A bad peace is even worse than war."
"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
"Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace."
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
"Every human longs for peace and love."
"The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order."
"We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity."
"When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement."
"Olympics for me is love, peace, united."
"That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind."
"But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential."
"When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve."
"I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out."
"We do not want riches, we want peace and love."
"Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people."
"If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace."
"There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away."
"Peace is produced by war."
"Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats."
"I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity."
"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world."
"I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late."
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
"Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up."
"Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else."
"The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load."
"I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom."
"Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace."
"When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue."
"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."
"Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers."
"I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook."
"I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong."
"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."
"At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules."
"Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge."
"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."
"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."
"I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth."
"Making peace is harder than making war."
"After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention."
"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace."
"A conqueror is always a lover of peace."
"Don't tell me peace has broken out."
"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."
"Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did."
"Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions."
"The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize."
"Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers."
"Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security."
"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within."
"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."
"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."
"A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men."
"Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God."
"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind."
"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."
"I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state."
"He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war."
"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."
"The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation."
"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."
"When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land."
"My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours."
"Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."
"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody."
"Peace is our gift to each other."
"In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God."
"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace."
"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."
"To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations."
"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."
"On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians."
"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all."
"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice."
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."
"Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it."
"The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace."
"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known."
"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."
"The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades."
"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."
"Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game."
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
"Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us."
"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other."
"But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter."
"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
"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."
"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them."
"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent."
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible."
"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?"
"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
"I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB."
"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions."
"Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air."
"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt."
"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."
"The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible."
"If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes."
"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
"A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace."
"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."
"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large."
"The only peace is being out of earshot."
"I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table."
"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace."
"To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order."
"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
"Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism."
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."
"I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge."
"Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world."
"Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace."
"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
"In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding."
"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."
"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."
"We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others."
"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman."
"Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave."
"If you want peace work for justice."
"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
"Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings."
"When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty."
"An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it."
"Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace."
"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."
"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."
"Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment."
"The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity."
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things."
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace."
"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."
"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
"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."
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
"How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose."
"Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get."
"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
"You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart."
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them."
"Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree."
"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."
"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."
"I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world."
"The purpose of all wars, is peace."
"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
"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."
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil."
"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work."
"We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray."
"The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability."
"Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people."
"Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war."
"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."
"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."
"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
"There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth."
"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."
"The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find."
"Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time."
"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
"Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred universal brotherhood, not enmity peace, and not violence."
"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."
"Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture."
"On all the peaks lies peace."
"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."
"Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."
"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace."
"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."
"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
"Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace."
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."
"Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."
"Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet."
"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."
"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
"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."
"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."
"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."
"When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace."
"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."
"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."
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace."
"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."
"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
"Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding."
"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force."
"We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace."
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible."
"The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way."
"The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two."
"You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace."
"Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by."
"Peace is the first thing the angels sang."
"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
"I declare that I will establish peace in this world."
"The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country."
"I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace."
"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."
"Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew."
"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."
"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."
"The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual."
"People always make war when they say they love peace."
"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful."
"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."
"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
"Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."
"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."
"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."
"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."
"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
"You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
"Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind."
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves."
"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
"We make war that we may live in peace."
"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
"Peace is its own reward."
"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
"A people free to choose will always choose peace."
"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace."
"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"Peace begins with a smile."
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."