I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
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 ~
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.
~By Louis A. Johnson ~
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
~By J. F. C. Fuller ~
The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
~By John Boehner ~
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.
~By Ian Hay ~
I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.
~By Barbara Mandrell ~
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~By Thomas Mann ~
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
~By James Forrestal ~
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
~By Sai Baba ~
We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
~By Matthew Henry ~
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
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 ~
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
~By Paul Robeson ~
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
~By William McKinley ~
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
~By Richard Cobden ~
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.
~By David McCallum ~
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
~By John Lennon ~
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
~By St. Jerome ~
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
My ambition is peace and perfection.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
~By Robin Morgan ~
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
~By Moliere ~
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
~By Norman Angell ~
I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.
~By James Cronin ~
Peace begins with a smile.
~By Mother Teresa ~
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
~By Ahmet Necdet Sezner ~
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.
~By Al D'Amato ~
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.
~By Peter King ~
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
~By Donald Freed ~
To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
~By Anna Lindh ~
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
~By Black Elk ~
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
~By Adam Smith ~
If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.
~By John Dingell ~
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
~By Buddha ~
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
~By Abdullah Ibrahim ~
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
~By Jock Sturges ~
We will not have peace by afterthought.
~By Norman Cousins ~
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
~By Georges Clemenceau ~
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
~By Kofi Annan ~
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
~By Max Lerner ~
Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.
~By David O. McKay ~
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
~By Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus ~
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
~By Oliver Tambo ~
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
~By George Montagu ~
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
~By Chief Joseph ~
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
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 ~
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
~By Larry Brown ~
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia.
~By Akhmad Kadyrov ~
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
~By Martin Luther ~
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