Peace Quotes

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Desmond Tutu

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Dominique de Villepin

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

Dominique de Villepin

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

Elliott Abrams

I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.

Elliott Abrams

Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiato...

Elliott Abrams

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

We want peace, but not at any price.

Ehud Barak

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

Ehud Barak

The price of peace is righteousness.

Ezra Taft Benson

No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.

Emma Caulfield

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

Ellen DeGeneres

Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

Emerson Fittipaldi

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Emmanuel Jal