Explore Quotes on Peace

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. 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.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.