Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Scilla Elworthy

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Scilla Elworthy

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

There was a dead-end street when I got married. It was quiet, peaceful and there were no factories.

Jacques Chirac

Disarmament should be done in a peaceful way,

Hu Jintao

do our utmost with all sincerity to strive for the prospect of a peaceful reunification of our country.

Julius Nyerere

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

we don't want wars here; we want to live in peace.

Anna Jameson

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

Thomas Fuller

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

We all feel responsible ... but there was supposed to be peace,

Stephen Jay Gould

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Jacques Chirac

There is still much to be done in the way of disarmament by peaceful means,

Soledad O'Brien

I've been speaking in many places on the subject of peace, on the conceptualizing of peace,

The story is about spreading peace in the world.

The talks have just started. They are about peace in the Congo.

Rebecca West

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

Rebecca West

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Saint Augustine

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Russell Baker

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

Umberto Eco

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

Ovid

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

Otto Frank

I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Paul McCartney

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.

Pericles

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Paul Valery

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.