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Quotes about Peace


Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U. Thant

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

U. Unesco

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

U. Anonymous

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow T. Wilson

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Oscar W. Firkins

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

D. H. Lawrence

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

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

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

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences.

Harry S. Truman

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Geraldine A. Ferraro

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Georges Clemenceau

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Kin Hubbard

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Ambrose Bierce

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Alternative Terror War Tanks rolled over to Jenin and its Refugee Camp As battlefields in a minute Clouds of black smokes belched From the nozzle of the missiles Turned the dwellings into debris And lives breathe under rubble Still desires of living That will never be fulfilled Sighing are heard in the air Unseen ghosts are roaming freely Searching their brotherhoods Living or dead Souls are still weeping bitterly With sorrows that never end In the war turned atmosphere Flying high in the sky appeared The hungry vultures that smell Odors of rotten human flesh As if the open graveyards To wipe the terrors and even its ghosts Out of the worldly atmosphere Reassuring pure peace In every people’s mind Is’t the rebirth of terror Or alternative terror ? © Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar.

Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

David Borenstein

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