Quotes About Peace
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.
You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas Gandhi
One day we must come to see
that peace is not merely a
distant goal we seek, but
that it is a means by which
we arrive at that goal.
We must pursue peaceful ends
through peaceful means.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The problems that exist
in the world today
cannot be solved by
the level of thinking
that created them.
- Albert Einstein
Peace is more precious
than a piece of land.
- Anwar Sadat
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
- Kin Hubbard
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
- Indian Proverb
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
A peace that comes
from fear and not
from the heart is
the opposite of peace.
- Gersonides
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone
will profit from it. This
is the most basic kind
of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
If we have no peace,
it is because we have
forgotten that we belong
to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-violence leads to the
highest ethics, which is the
goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming
all other living beings,
we are still savages.
- Thomas Alva Edison
The opposite of war is not peace; it's creation.
- Unknown
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. - Johann von Schiller
The world is a dangerous place to live,
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. . . . The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is the answer
to the crucial political and
moral questions of our time;
the need for mankind to
overcome oppression and
violence without resorting to
oppression and violence.
Mankind must evolve for
all human conflict a method
which rejects revenge,
aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a
method is love.
- Martin Luther King,
December 11, 1964
