Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
~By William Hazlitt ~
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
~By Shimon Peres ~
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
~By Benito Juarez ~
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
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.
~By Mikhail Saakashvili ~
Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
~By Nina Hagen ~
My ambition is peace and perfection.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
~By Henry Miller ~
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
~By George Grosz ~
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
~By William Pennington ~
I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.
~By James Wolfensohn ~
A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
~By Mika Waltari ~
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.
~By Susan Collins ~
Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
~By Tojo Hideki ~
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
~By Debbie Reynolds ~
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
~By Imran Khan ~
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
~By Malcom X ~
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
~By Petrarch ~
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
~By David O. McKay ~
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
~By James K. Polk ~
How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?
~By Tom Lantos ~
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
~By Black Kettle ~
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
~By James Forrestal ~
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
~By A. J. Muste ~
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
~By William Allen White ~
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
Peace is a conscious choice.
~By John Denver ~
I've made my peace with myself.
~By Broderick Crawford ~
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.
~By William Manchester ~
To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.
~By Herman Kahn ~
I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace.
~By Albert Reynolds ~
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
~By Markus Wolf ~
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
~By Joseph Goebbels ~
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
~By Gustav Stickley ~
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
~By Kent Nerburn ~
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
~By Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah ~
And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
~By Glenn Beck ~
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
~By Lech Walesa ~
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Peace without justice is tyranny.
~By William Allen White ~
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
~By Michael Franti ~
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
~By Robert Indiana ~
It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
~By Ovid ~
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
~By Maria Montessori ~
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
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.
~By Elihu Root ~
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.
~By King Hussein I ~
At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
~By John Lennon ~
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
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.
~By Jim Costa ~
Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
~By Robert Toombs ~
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
I fought for peace in the fifties.
~By Pete Seeger ~
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