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Quotes About Peace

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.
~ Ali Meshkini
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
~ Alice Hoffman
When the old men fight, the young people die.
~ Anne Fortier
A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.
~ Anuj
It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
~ Arthur Helps
If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
~ Barry McGuigan
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
~ Bertrand Russell
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
~ Blaise Pascal
Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
~ Blaise Pascal
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
~ Blaise Pascal
Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
~ Bob Dylan
I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.
~ Bruce Kent
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
~ Cormac McCarthy
One would think that man would run out of wars.
~ Dalton Camp
I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.
~ David Clement-Davies
Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.
~ David Gemmell
Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
~ E. W. Howe
The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.
~ Edgar Guest
Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.
~ Elton John
I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.
~ Erma Bombeck
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
~ Euripides