PEACE QUOTES V

quotations about peace

Peace quote

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

RICHARD NIXON

Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969

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If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

FRANK SINATRA

Playboy, February 1962

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Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

RICHARD NIXON

No More Vietnams

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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

interview with George Sylvester Viereck, January 1931

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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

THOMAS HARDY

The Dynasts

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Justice is the foundation upon which peace is built, and until we understand that, we will continue to tread dangerous waters, until there is no water left to tread.

JARI QUDRAT

"Justice Is The Foundation For Everlasting Peace", Huffington Post, March 28, 2016


We live in a nation that has been at war for decades and we see no peace because we continue to follow the way of the world, the way of violence and killing and revenge and hatred instead of rejecting that and following the way of Jesus.

THOMAS GUMBLETON

"The way to peace is through love", National Catholic Reporter, March 24, 2016


The opportunity for long-term peace is upon us. Let's not blow it, yet again.

BRIAN GREENSPUN

"Stars align for 2-state solution, Mideast peace", Las Vegas Sun, April 3, 2016


In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

HORACE

Satires

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Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

"Aviation, Geography, and Race", Reader's Digest, November 1939

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

THOMAS MANN

This I Believe

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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin?
The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.

EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH

Peace, Perfect Peace

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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.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1957

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Peace is not the absence of conflict. In a culture of peace, disagreeing parties would collaborate to discover solutions, possibly conclusions that neither could have realized on their own.

BOB MORSE

"What is a 'culture of peace'?", Daily Tidings, March 22, 2016


This troubled peace is the new normal in our globalised world.

NG ENG HEN

"Singapore must learn to live with new normal -- a troubled peace", Today Online, April 8, 2016


Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it.

THICH NHAT HANH

Peace Is Every Step

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Peace remains a vague reality. The mystery and the enigma and the riddle, a rare moment in history. Isn't one man's peace another man's prison?

WILLIAM P. SINGLEY

"The Enigma of Peace", The Good Men Project, March 15, 2016


Peace is first and foremost the uniting of our lives with the life of God.

THOM MOLLOHAN

"To know God is to know peace", Point Pleasant Daily Register, March 24, 2016


Lasting peace is long overdue and crucial, and this must begin at the grass-root level. It is essential to enhance people-to-people communication as we feel that miscommunication and lack of communication have sustained the conflict.

ALIYA HARIR

"Agents of peace", Live Mint, April 7, 2016


That nation that regards the avoidance of war as the highest good regardless of the price exacted for peace in its honor, its rights, its vital interests, is a nation both wretched and contemptible and cannot long endure.

FRANK KNOX

"We Must Fight for Our Liberties"