Quotes About Peace

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

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.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.