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Quotes About Peace

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
~ King Abdullah II
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
~ King Abdullah II
Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
~ King Abdullah II
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
~ King Abdullah II
Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
~ King Abdullah II
Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
~ King Abdullah II
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
~ King George V
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.
~ King Hussein I
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
~ King Hussein I
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
~ King Hussein I
We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.
~ King Hussein I
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
~ King Hussein I
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
~ King Hussein I
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
~ King Hussein I
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.
~ King Hussein I
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
~ King Hussein I
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
~ King Hussein I
Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
~ King Hussein I
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it.
~ Kingsley Amis
Death has got something to be said for it:There's no need to get out of bed for it;Wherever you may be,They bring it to you, free.
~ Kingsley Amis
Why couldn't they leave him alone? Why couldn't every single one of them without exception whatsoever just go right away from where he was and leave him alone?
~ Kingsley Amis
I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!
~ Kinky Friedman
May the God of your choice bless you.
~ Kinky Friedman
The only way to peace is to lay aside weapons. (Rowena) And the bloodiest of wars are often fought not with weapons, but rather with tongues. A man can heal an external wound a thousand times faster than he can heal even a small one dealt to his heart. You are a warrior, milady. You just choose a different forum for your battles, but you battle nonetheless. Like the men you hate so much, you hurt and wound. Have you given thought to why you fight the wars you do? (Zenobia)
~ Kinley MacGregor