Peace Quotes

"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing"

David Selby, Actor

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die"

John Lennon, Musician

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal"

John Lennon, Musician

"And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies"

Jim Costa, Politician

"Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"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, Politician

"The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace"

John Bruton, Politician

"As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Peace is the first thing the angels sang"

John Keble, Clergyman

"I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw"

Ed O'Neill, Actor

"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history"

Albert Reynolds, Politician

"The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars"

Anwar Sadat, Statesman

"My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child"

Shalom Harlow, Model

"A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul"

Mika Waltari, Author

"Now God be praised, I will die in peace"

James Wolfe, Soldier

"The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference"

Yitzhak Rabin, Statesman

"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith"

Abraham Kuyper, Theologian

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Page 2 of 27