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Quotes About Peace

My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that.
~ Ryan Montgomery
Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
~ Saad Hariri
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
~ Sally Field
Create the kind of world you want to live in by how you treat others now.
~ Sharon Gannon
I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.
~ Sri Chinmoy
With everything going on in the world I really just want what is best for everyone regardless of who they are.
~ Steve Clevenger
What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.
~ Terry Pratchett
All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
~ Tim O'Brien
We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).
~ Tom Segev
If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
~ Tom Shadyac
I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
~ Vikram Seth
There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.
~ Wayne Dyer
I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.
~ Will Smith
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
~ William Hazlitt
It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]
~ Winston Churchill
Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God.
~ Yann Martel
I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.
~ Jackie Chan
I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.
~ Jane Alison
When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
~ Javier Bardem
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.
~ Jim Carrey
We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
~ Jimmy Carter