Quotes on Peace

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

Many problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it. Fixing inner-city schools, reducing obesity, creating peace in the Middle East are just a few examples.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

In many ways, the North won the Civil War militarily and then lost the peace. You know, a group of writers, included many Confederate generals, began a school of thought called the Lost Cause in which they began to romanticize the Confederacy.

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

My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

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.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.