Quotes About Peace

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Sting is much better at switching off than I am. He can concentrate and meditate whatever might be going on in the room and is far more disciplined.

I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.

I find that a small sacrifice such as switching off my phone and blocking out work helps me stay balanced.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

Will we forever live by our sword? We definitely will live with our sword. I don't think our children or grandchildren won't be soldiers. We must make efforts to try and not live only by our sword, but we will always be with a sword.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.

I wanted to have a peaceful married life with my wife, so we both moved to Sydney in Australia.

I never thought that the child who was a famous symbol of war would one day be invited to become a symbol of peace.

We hope that the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will help us to promote Seoul as a symbol of peace beyond war and division in order to attract global attention to peace on the Korean Peninsula.

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.

I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

Bill Clinton was one of the greatest presidents that we've seen. He was involved in the peace process in the very beginning, and he not only showed himself to be knowledgeable about Irish history and Irish-British relationships, but also he was very sympathetic to the idea of resolving conflict.

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

We believe that every child has a right to learn without fear, that every parent has a right to hug their beautiful little babies when they come home from school, and that all of us, we have a right to dance at a concert, laugh at the theater, pray at a synagogue, at a church, and at a mosque.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

Paul is synonymous with the ocean.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Escalating in Syria is not the best approach.

To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.