Peace Quotes

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Jonathan Sacks

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

Shimon Peres

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Ben Hecht

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

Prem Rawat

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.

Lee H. Hamilton

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

George W. Bush

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.

Caroline Kennedy

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Ludwig von Mises

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.

Jermaine Jackson

Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers.

Leo Tolstoy

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

Zebulon Pike

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.

Yitzhak Rabin

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Doris Lessing

Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.

Alan Dershowitz

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.

Lester B. Pearson

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Omar Bongo

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Arthur Henderson

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.

Olga Korbut

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.

Dorothy Thompson