Quotes About Peace

Bless something small but infinite and quiet. — Robert Creeley, from "A Prayer," The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975 . (University of California Press; 2nd ed. edition October 23, 2006)

The policeman is the most important social worker we have. Often it is far better to settle an argument or disperse a crowd and move on than to make an arrest.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Every citizen must be actively aware of, participating in, and overseeing research, and that research should be focused on creating prosperity and peace, not war and poverty or suicidal needs. Transparency, which engenders truth, is the foundation for all this.

Tracy knew prisoners often said the most difficult thing to get used to wasn't being locked behind bars or doors, but learning to deal with the constant noise, the lack of any peace or privacy.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Do you think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth? I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man 'against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law' " (Mt 10:34–36).

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it.

The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.

In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love—carefully.

Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

del distrito de Tofah en Gaza en 1993, el canal de noticias CNN mostró una cinta con imágenes de unos jóvenes lanzando piedras a las tropas israelíes. No obstante, el comentario de la CNN decía que aquellos jóvenes «protestaban por el proceso de paz».

Dado que la prensa y las cadenas de televisión estadounidenses tampoco querían ser tildadas de «enemigos de la paz», en Occidente muchas todavía no estaban al corriente de la desastrosa desintegración que estaba sufriendo el acuerdo de «paz» de Arafat con Israel, ni sabían por qué los palestinos culpaban a Israel de la matanza de Hebrón.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The abolitionists set it up, the defeat of the Confederacy made it imperative. It was freely admitted that it "confers on Congress the power to invade any state to enforce the freedom of the African in war or peace.