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Quotes About Peace

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.
~ Gustav Landauer
I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
~ Stockard Channing
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
~ Ellen Key
The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.
~ Baha'u'llah
Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.
~ Christofer Drew
The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.
~ Aesop
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
~ Kofi Annan
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
~ Herman Kahn
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
~ Sean MacBride
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
~ Wangari Maathai
It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.
~ Pope Francis
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
~ Pope John Paul II
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.
~ Bertrand Russell
How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
~ Georges Clemenceau
If nuclear energy is used for the sake of humanity, then I say yes. But if it is used destructively, then no.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.
~ Dalai Lama
It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
~ Thomas Keating
Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.
~ Larry Heinemann
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.
~ Dustin Hoffman