quotations about peace
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
RICHARD NIXON
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969
If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
FRANK SINATRA
Playboy, February 1962
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
RICHARD NIXON
No More Vietnams
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
interview with George Sylvester Viereck, January 1931
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
THOMAS HARDY
The Dynasts
Justice is the foundation upon which peace is built, and until we understand that, we will continue to tread dangerous waters, until there is no water left to tread.
JARI QUDRAT
"Justice Is The Foundation For Everlasting Peace", Huffington Post, March 28, 2016
We live in a nation that has been at war for decades and we see no peace because we continue to follow the way of the world, the way of violence and killing and revenge and hatred instead of rejecting that and following the way of Jesus.
THOMAS GUMBLETON
"The way to peace is through love", National Catholic Reporter, March 24, 2016
The opportunity for long-term peace is upon us. Let's not blow it, yet again.
BRIAN GREENSPUN
"Stars align for 2-state solution, Mideast peace", Las Vegas Sun, April 3, 2016
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
HORACE
Satires
Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
"Aviation, Geography, and Race", Reader's Digest, November 1939
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN
This I Believe
Peace is not the absence of conflict. In a culture of peace, disagreeing parties would collaborate to discover solutions, possibly conclusions that neither could have realized on their own.
BOB MORSE
"What is a 'culture of peace'?", Daily Tidings, March 22, 2016
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1957
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin?
The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
Peace, Perfect Peace
This troubled peace is the new normal in our globalised world.
NG ENG HEN
"Singapore must learn to live with new normal -- a troubled peace", Today Online, April 8, 2016
Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it.
THICH NHAT HANH
Peace Is Every Step
Peace is first and foremost the uniting of our lives with the life of God.
THOM MOLLOHAN
"To know God is to know peace", Point Pleasant Daily Register, March 24, 2016
Lasting peace is long overdue and crucial, and this must begin at the grass-root level. It is essential to enhance people-to-people communication as we feel that miscommunication and lack of communication have sustained the conflict.
ALIYA HARIR
"Agents of peace", Live Mint, April 7, 2016
Peace remains a vague reality. The mystery and the enigma and the riddle, a rare moment in history. Isn't one man's peace another man's prison?
WILLIAM P. SINGLEY
"The Enigma of Peace", The Good Men Project, March 15, 2016
A culture of peace invites us to engage our hearts. It encourages us to slow down our knee-jerk reactions by feeling before we think and then thinking before we act. Compassion means to feel another's suffering, and a culture of peace brings such empathy to both conversations and systems.
BOB MORSE
"What is a 'culture of peace'?", Daily Tidings, March 22, 2016