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Quotes About Peace

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.
~ Ho Chi Minh
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
~ Robert E. Lee
Everybody's at war with different things…I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
~ Tupac Shakur
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.
~ Shimon Peres
Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.
~ Lester B. Pearson
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.
~ James Madison
We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
~ Mother Teresa
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
~ Hirohito
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
~ Jimmy Carter
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
~ Plato
Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
~ Jill Stein
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
~ Pema Chodron
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...
~ Yasser Arafat
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
~ Hermann Goring
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
~ Jack Kornfield
Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without
~ Subcomandante Marcos
Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.
~ Alfred Thayer Mahan
There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.
~ Jill Stein
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling
~ Rudyard Kipling
We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser