Peace Quotes

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.

Virginia Woolf

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

I will not play at tug o' war.I'd rather play at hug o' war,Where everyone hugsInstead of tugs,Where everyone gigglesAnd rolls on the rug,Where everyone kisses,And everyone grins,And everyone cuddles,And everyone wins.

Shel Silverstein, Hug O' War

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

Albert Einstein

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

C.S. Lewis

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.

Ronald Reagan

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.

Cassandra Clare

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Lao Tzu

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.

Mariel Hemingway

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.

Susan Rice

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Paul Robeson

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.

Marianne Williamson

Peace is important for Israel.

Ehud Olmert

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination.

Joseph Campbell

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Titus Livius

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.

Walter Ulbricht