Peace Quotes - page 4

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. (Fredrik Bajer)
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE. View quote
Alva Myrdal
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. View quote
Andrew Jackson
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. View quote
John Lennon
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. View quote
John Lennon
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. (Petrarch)
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! View quote
Georg Büchner
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. View quote
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. View quote
John Ruskin
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. View quote
Pierre Bayle
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. View quote
Benito Mussolini
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. View quote
Abba Eban
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. (Adlai Stevenson II)
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. View quote
George Herbert
There is no way to peace; peace is the way. View quote
A. J. Muste
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. View quote
William Beveridge
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