Quotes for Peace

 

"One cannot simultaneously prepare for war and create peace."
-- Anon

"I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being."
-- Joan Baez

"Peace be with you."
-- The Bible: Genesis XLIII. 23

"Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace."
-- The Bible: Proverbs. III. 17

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."
-- Winston Churchill

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."
-- Cicero.

"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."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
-- Desiderius Erasmus

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."
-- J. William Fulbright

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons."
-- Herodotus

"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
-- Isaiah 2:4

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
-- Lyndon B Johnson

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
--John F. Kennedy

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
--John F. Kennedy

"There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions."
-- Hans Küng

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobodys' business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one."
-- John Lennon

"All we are saying is give peace a chance..."
-- John Lennon

"And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight."
-- John Lennon

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Peace starts with a smile"
-- Mother Teresa

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
-- A.J. Muste

"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."
-- Henri Nouwen

"This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."
-- Peace Pilgrim

"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things."
-- Peace Pilgrim

"One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history."
-- Peace Pilgrim

"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
-- Petrarch (14th century)

"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
-- Pope Pius VI

"I believe that love, kindness, compassion, tolerance, and peace can be implanted in the psyche of man only when fear, paranormal illusion and ignorance are removed. We can then shift our attention more to matters of peace, rather than to matters of war."
-- Peter Retzinger

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous"
-- George Bernard Shaw

"We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims."
-- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.

"The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve."
-- Vatican statement to the U.N., 1976

"Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate."
-- Joan Walsh

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
-- George Washington

"Peace is our gift to each other."
-- Elie Wiesel

"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
-- Woodrow Wilson