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Quotes About Peace

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.
~ Burning Spear
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
~ Pope John Paul II
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.
~ Wyclef Jean
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
~ Alberto Fujimori
I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
~ Maggie Nelson
This endless violence in the U.K. has to stop.
~ A. J. Pritchard
I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
~ Forest Whitaker
I think violence can never be justified.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.
~ Alcee Hastings
No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
I never, never supporting any violence and everybody that know me, and all the countries here they know well that is no one, nowhere that the former prime minister will become terrorist to hurt their own country. No way.
~ Thaksin Shinawatra
I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.
~ Justin Sane
You can't change the system through violence.
~ Alex Cox
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
~ Andrew Young
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
~ Coretta Scott King
It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
~ Bob Keeshan
I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.
~ Chuck Norris
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
~ Joan Baez
I don't support violence, period.
~ Edward James Olmos
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
~ Andrew Young
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
~ Deepak Chopra
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I do not like violence.
~ Abdurrahman Wahid
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
~ Elie Wiesel