Peace Quotes

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

George H. W. Bush

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.

King Hussein I

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

Jimmy Carter

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.

Sun Myung Moon

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.

Thomas Merton

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.

Paul Robeson

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Fred Hampton

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Lauren Conrad

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Sherman Hemsley

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Pete Seeger

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.

Gunter Grass

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Hiawatha

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.

Paul Wellstone

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Anna Lindh

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Paloma Picasso

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

Blaise Pascal

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.

Michael Morpurgo

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Stefan Zweig

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Elia Kazan