Peace Quotes

A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Gustav Stresemann

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Rita Mae Brown

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

John Keble

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

Black Kettle

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.

Zinedine Zidane

It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is Love.' This year, it's 'all you need is Love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

John Lennon

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

Paul Theroux

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

Hamid Karzai

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

James Thomson

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

Frank B. Kellogg

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Ulrich Beck

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Abraham Maslow

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Darrell Issa

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Saint Isaac of Nineveh

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

Muammar al-Gaddafi

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

Javier Bardem

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller