Quotes About Peace

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

Being "in love" shouldn't cause stress; it should relieve it.

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day.

I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.

The women rest their tired half-healed hearts; they are almost well.

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.

Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.

Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

Be still in peace and reach your highest peak.

The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul.

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.