Peace Quotes

Chanakya Quote: One should live in a country free from conflict.
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Its the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. Its seeing all those sunsets that does it. You cant watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbors tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

Daniel Quinn

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Georges Clemenceau

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Nelson Mandela

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

George Carlin

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

John F. Kennedy

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

Let us forgive eachother, only then will we live in peace.

Leo Tolstoy

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

John Russell

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Aristotle

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

First thing I killed was no kind of thing at all. It was an enemy soldier. Which is a hell of a lot easier to say, than the first thing I ever killed was a man.

Steve Mason

Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people... living life in peace.

John Lennon

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

Thomas Paine

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land… let there be no more wars.

Anwar Sadat

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Chief Joseph

It is better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

Ted Kennedy

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

William McKinley

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Otto von Bismarck

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

Chief Joseph

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our government. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace

Albert Schweitzer

A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. ”Which wolf will win, grandfather? Asks the young boy. ”Whichever one I feed” replies the grandfather.

Native American Proverb

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