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Quotes About People

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.
~ Leslie Groves
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
~ Trevor Huddleston
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~ Albert Einstein
The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
~ Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
~ Hamza Yusuf
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
~ Elihu Root
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
~ Roger Williams
The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
~ James A. Garfield
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
~ Jock Sturges
I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace
~ Pope Francis
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
~ Simone Weil
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.
~ Shane Claiborne
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.
~ Heinz Fischer
Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.
~ Michael Josephson
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
~ Joan Baez
A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace. I mean to be president of all the people.
~ George H. W. Bush
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
~ Paul Robeson