Famous Quotes

"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 on Peace

More quotes about Peace

• "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

  Jimi Hendrix on Peace

• "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Peace

• "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

  Mother Teresa on Peace

• "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Peace

• "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."

  John Lennon on Peace

More quotes by Petrarch

• "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."

• "Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."

• "Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

• "Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?"

• "Books have led some to learning and others to madness."