Famous Quotes
- 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
- Cat Stevens on Peace
- A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper on Peace
- A bad peace is even worse than war.
- A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on Peace
- A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
- A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.
- Mika Waltari on Peace
- A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
- A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
- Yitzhak Rabin on Peace
- A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Peace
- A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
- Greg Walden on Peace
- A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
- Robert Johnson on Peace
- A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer on Peace
- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
- Abraham Maslow on Peace
- A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
- Richard Holbrooke on Peace
- A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
- William Shakespeare on Peace
- A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
- Henry Van Dyke on Peace
- A people free to choose will always choose peace.
- Ronald Reagan on Peace
- A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
- Kwame Nkrumah on Peace
- Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
- Cecilia Bartoli on Peace
- Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
- Hamid Karzai on Peace
- After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.
- John James Audubon on Peace
- After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Peace
- 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 on Peace
- All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
- All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
- Eisaku Sato on Peace
- All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon on Peace
- Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
- Ulysses S. Grant on Peace
- America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
- George W. Bush on Peace
- Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
- Anthony Burgess on Peace
- An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
- George Eliot on Peace
- An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Peace
- An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
- John Paul Jones on Peace
- An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Peace
- And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
- Lester B. Pearson on Peace
- And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
- Glenn Beck on Peace
- Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
- Arthur Henderson on Peace
- Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
- Sargent Shriver on Peace
- Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
- Yahya Jammeh on Peace
- Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
- Natan Sharansky on Peace
- Arafat was a barrier to peace.
- Charles Schumer on Peace
- Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
- Henry Cabot Lodge on Peace
- Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.
- As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
- Arthur Henderson on Peace
- As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
- Rene Cassin on Peace
- As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
- Paul Robeson on Peace
- As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
- Rodney King on Peace
- As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
- Lester B. Pearson on Peace
- As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
- Pythagoras on Peace
- As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
- Andrea Dworkin on Peace
- As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
- Dan Lipinski on Peace
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