Quotes About Peace

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

W.S. Merwin, What Is a Garden?

Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!

Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning

Now the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope.

Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

Above all nations is humanity.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

War is a defeat for humanity.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.