Famous Quotes

"I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet."

Wislawa Szymborska 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 Wislawa Szymborska

• "Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die."

• "All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."

• "Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."

• "Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality."

• "I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."