Peace Quotes

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Tom Lehrer

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

Tran Duc Luong

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton
Peace quotes by Thomas Paine, UberQuotes

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Thomas Paine

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

Ted Rall

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

Tim Robbins

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Todd Rundgren

One big difference between our situation in Myanmar and other situations around the world is that we're not just trying to achieve peace with one group but 11 groups - so it is incredibly complicated as well.

Thein Sein

People would like to see peace and stability, and that is why we have had engagement with the ethnic armed groups. That's why our reform process is based on the wishes and the will of the people.

Thein Sein

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

Theodore C. Sorensen

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

Tom Smothers

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Ugo Betti

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Ulrich Beck

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Umberto Eco

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

Virchand Gandhi

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Vaclav Havel