Some quotations on peace please!

Question

Can anyone give me any quotations on peace?

Answer 1

PEACE is so overrated...

Answer 2

Peace is the marriage of the people and the planet, with all attendant vows.

      -- Anonymous

Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.

      -- Hafsat Abiola  

In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

      -- Kofi Annan

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.

      -- Kofi Annan

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

      -- Black Elk (1863-1950)

There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.

      -- Elise Boulding  

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

      -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

      -- Buddha (560-483 B.C.)  

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

      -- Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-1971)  

Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Soldiers usually win battles and generals get the credit for them. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

      -- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

      -- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

      -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997)

Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.

      -- The XIVth Dalai Lama

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

      -- The XIVth Dalai Lama

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

      -- Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)  

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

      -- Albert Einstein (1979-1955)

There can be no peace without law.

      -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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.

      -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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

      -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

      -- Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)  

There was never a good war or a bad peace.

      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)  

It is possible to live in peace.

      -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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 (1869-1951)  

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

      -- William Gladstone (1809-1898)

Peace is every step.

      -- Thich Nhat Hahn  

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

      -- Thich Nhat Hanh  

Peace-making is a healing process and it begins with me, but it does not end there.

      -- Gene Knudsen Hoffman  

The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one's life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

      -- Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

      -- Daisaku Ikeda  

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

      -- Isaiah, II:4  

Peace is the respect for the rights of others. (El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz ).

      -- Benito Juarez (1806-1872)

A truly free society must not include a "peace" which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace.is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

      -- Petra Karin Kelly (1947-1992)  

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

      -- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

      -- Malcolm X (1925-1965)

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will - and determination - to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.

      -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)  

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

      -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)  

If there is to be peace in the world,

There must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,

There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,

There must be peace between neighbors.

If there is to be peace between neighbors,

There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,

There must be peace in the heart.

      -- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)



All we are saying is give peace a chance.

      -- John Lennon (1940-1980)  

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

      -- John Lennon (1940-1980)  

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

      -- Archibald MacLeish (1907-1982)

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

      -- Matthew, V:9  

It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

      -- Federico Mayor  

Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

      -- Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)  

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

      -- Maria Montessori (1870-1952)

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

      -- John Muir (1838-1914)

Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.

      -- Robert Muller

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

      -- A.J. Muste (1885-1967)

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

      -- Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)  

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

      -- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990)  

This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

      -- Peace Pilgrim  

Five enemies of peace inhabit us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

      -- Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

To reach peace, teach peace.

      -- Pope John Paul II

If you want peace, work for justice.

      -- Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)  

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

      -- Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)  

Peace will be victorious.

      -- Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995)

Peace, development and environmental protection are interdependent and indivisible.

      -- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1993

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.

Peace is not the silent revolt of violent repression.

Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution

of all to the good of all.

Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.

It is right and it is duty.

      -- Bishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)

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 (1884-1962)

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

      -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)  

Here then, is the problem we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?

      -- The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 1955  

In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.

      -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)  

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

      -- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

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

      -- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)  

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

      -- Mother Theresa (1910-1997)  

All works of love are works of peace.

      -- Mother Theresa (1910-1997)  

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

      -- Mother Theresa (1910-1997)  

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

      -- UNESCO Constitution

We, Veteran's for Peace, view peace as a positively active and creative process which requires courage, commitment, endurance, vigilance, and integrity. Peace is a struggle toward unity, and it is characterized by an absence of violence in all its forms, including discrimination based on gender, age, race, religion, social and economic status, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Those who labor for peace are called peacemakers because they tirelessly pursue nonviolent solutions, work for economic and social justice, celebrate diversity, and strive to build relationships between adversaries through education, conflict mediation, and humanitarian relief. We recognize that peace is both a means and end simultaneously, and that it is never finally or fully achieved. This is because change and growth require some degree of tension or conflict. Historically, such conflict has provided the impetus for military solutions. Thus we, Veteran's for Peace, strongly believe that the greatest obstacle to peace is militarism with its reliance on violence and war. We further believe that peacekeeping action should only be accomplished by a legitimate international body.

      -- Committee to Define Peace, Veterans for Peace

Time itself becomes subordinate to war. If only we could celebrate peace as our various ancestors celebrated war; if only we could glorify peace as those before us, thirsting for adventure, glorified war; if only our sages and scholars together could resolve to infuse peace with the same energy and inspiration that others have put into war.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war>

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?

      -- Elie Wiesel



Peace is always beautiful.

      -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Leaves of Grass  

Answer 3

John Lennon:

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

Answer 4

Give peace a chance

Answer 5

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy

"Violence as a way of achieving justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"War does not determine who is right; only who is left." - Unknown

"For this cause I too am prepared to die, but for no cause, my friend, will I be prepared to kill." - Mahatma Gandhi

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon