Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
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 ~
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.
~By James Forrestal ~
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
~By George Wald ~
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
~By Nick Rahall ~
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 ~
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
~By Aslan Maskhadov ~
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.
~By Grete Waitz ~
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
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 ~
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
Making peace is harder than making war.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
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 ~
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.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
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 ~
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
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 ~
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
~By Frederick Buechner ~
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
~By John Lennon ~
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
~By King Hussein I ~
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
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 ~
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 ~
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
~By Winfield Scott Hancock ~
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
~By David Borenstein ~
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
~By Yasser Arafat ~
God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
~By Samantha Smith ~
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
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 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 ~
The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
~By Michael Jordan ~
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.
~By Anwar Sadat ~
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 ~
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
~By John Buchan ~
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
~By Robert Southey ~
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
~By Willem de Kooning ~
Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.
~By William Kirby ~
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
~By Elihu Root ~
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
~By David Selby ~
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 ~
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~By Melody Beattie ~
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
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 ~
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 ~
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~
We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
~By George Montagu ~
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.
~By John Woolman ~
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 ~
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
~By Tacitus ~
Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.
~By Nick Rahall ~
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
~By Thomas Hood ~
The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
~By David Davis ~
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
~By Lech Walesa ~
We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
~By Richard Cobden ~
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 ~
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
~By George Whitefield ~
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 ~
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~By Hamilton Fish ~
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 ~
I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
~By Hans Blix ~
We need new partnerships for peace and security.
~By Anna Lindh ~
It is far easier to make war than peace.
~By Georges Clemenceau ~
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
~By George Michael ~
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 ~
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
~By Saint Augustine ~
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
~By Matthew Henry ~
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