Peace Quotes

• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.Andre Trocme
• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.Anton Chekov
• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.Geraldine Ferraro
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable . John F. Kennedy
• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. Dag Hammarskjold
• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza
• Peace is liberty in tranquillity.Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Peace is its own reward. Mohandas Gandhi
• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. Lyndon B. Johnson
• A people free to choose will always choose peace. Ronald Reagan
• An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.Mohandas Gandhi
• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. Benjamin Franklin
• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.Mother Teresa
• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. John F. Kennedy
• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Thomas Fuller
• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa

• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William Ewart Gladstone
• The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
• Nothing is worth more than this day. Goethe
• The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.Swami Rama
• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity. Leo Tolstoy
• To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow. Natalia Makrova
• Be happy in the moment - that's enough. Each moment is all we need - not more. Mother Teresa
• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world. Marcus Aurelius
• The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. William J. Clinton, 1997
• The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. Vera Brittain, 1964
• Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Francesco Petrarch
• Right is more precious than peace. Woodrow Wilson
• Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.Colman McCarthy
• Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. Dalai Lama
• I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.Dalai Lama
• Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.Dorothy Thompson