Peace Quotes

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

A people free to choose always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Swami Sivananda

Even peace may be purchased at very high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known,it is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende

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

I dream of an Africa which in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If we have no peace, it's because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

If you want to make peace with ur enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon
Peace's not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller

Peace is the first thing the angels sing.
John Keble

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell

People usually make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery

The forces driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Arthur Henderson

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

The only important thing I have to say is that my dad never fought against his country.
Zinedine Zidane

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright

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

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken