How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
~By Robert Plant ~
The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?
~By Arthur Henderson ~
I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
~By Dennis Kucinich ~
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
~By Red Cloud ~
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 ~
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.
~By Black Kettle ~
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
~By King Hussein I ~
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
~By John McCain ~
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
~By Alfred Nobel ~
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
~By Xun Zi ~
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
~By Dalai Lama ~
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
~By King Hussein I ~
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
~By Paul Walker ~
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
~By Saint Teresa ~
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
~By Garrett Morris ~
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
~By George A. Smith ~
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
~By Red Cloud ~
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
~By Roger Moore ~
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
~By River Phoenix ~
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone.
~By Jacques Chirac ~
Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.
~By Brian Celio ~
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
~By Carlos Salinas ~
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
~By Elia Kazan ~
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
~By William Drummond ~
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
~By James A. Garfield ~
Peace is a conscious choice.
~By John Denver ~
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
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 ~
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.
~By Andrei A. Gromyko ~
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.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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.
~By Robert Johnson ~
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
~By Ugo Betti ~
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
~By King Hussein I ~
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
~By Diane Kruger ~
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
~By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.
~By Edvard Munch ~
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
~By Pope John XXIII ~
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.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.
~By David McCallum ~
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
~By Richard Pryor ~
When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'
~By Mickey Rooney ~
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~By Lech Walesa ~
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
~By Robert Conquest ~
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
~By David Trimble ~
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
~By Rene Cassin ~
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
~By Ann Beattie ~
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
~By Trevor Huddleston ~
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
~By George W. Bush ~
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
~By William Bennett ~
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.
~By Alex Campbell ~
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?
~By Warren Christopher ~
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.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
~By Marvin Gaye ~
Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.
~By Greta Garbo ~
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
~By Julien Benda ~
When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
~By Janeane Garofalo ~
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.
~By Cheryl James ~
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
~By James K. Polk ~
I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.
~By Craig Armstrong ~
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
~By George B. McClellan ~
Peace is our gift to each other.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
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.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
~By Yahya Jammeh ~
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
~By Lin Yutang ~
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
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