Peace Quotes

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

John Lennon

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Vera Brittain

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

General George Catlett Marshall,

What we need is a generation of peace.

Jawaharlal Nehru

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Julius Kambarge Nyerere

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

Julie Christie

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

Sargent Shriver

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.

Goran Persson

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

David Herbert Lawrence

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Siobhan Fahey

You don't kill your way to peace.

Imran Khan

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette