Quotes About Peace

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.

In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.

Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

I wish to pay attention to what we can do better to prevent conflict. Because by avoiding conflict, we save human lives, and we also save money.

I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

We know that police alone can't prevent violence. Support of political parties is imperative to maintain peace.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years.

The price of peace is righteousness.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

Money isn't that important to me. My needs are primarily artistic. Mainly I'm interested in my own peace of mind, in knowing who I am and what I am.

I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world.

When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.

The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.