Quotes About Peace

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

I have this one room - it has a TV, a sofa, some candles. I close the door, sit down and lose myself.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

I've let my body soften. I've let it relax.

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

I know one day I will take my last breath, and if I am in His 'house' when that happens, I pray my family can find a bit of solace and peace knowing that is where I saw Jesus for the first time.

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.

My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made.

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.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.