Top 580 Peace Quotes

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
Bernard Baruch
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Zebulon Pike
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tom Lehrer
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus
The ‘peace movement’ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
Noam Chomsky
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Buchner
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord’s presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy.
Joseph Prince
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.
Martin McGuinness
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Martin Luther
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy
When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
Eddie Vedder
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
I have long been an advocate for peace and human rights in Canada and around the globe.
Jagmeet Singh
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
Abdullah II of Jordan
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
Alija Izetbegovic
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
James Q. Wilson
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
Benazir Bhutto
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Adlai Stevenson I
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.
Herbert Hoover
The end of art is peace.
Seamus Heaney
It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
Tom Cruise
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
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
I love acting. It’s my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.
Chris Evans
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Desmond Tutu
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
Richard Quest
I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
Benito Juarez
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
We in the West think of peace as society’s default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live.
Bertha von Suttner
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the sc

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
Wayne Dyer
Let us have peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
William McKinley
As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria – but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
T. B. Joshua
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana
It’s not a choice between war and peace. It’s a choice between war and endless war. It’s not appeasement. I think it’s better even to call it American self-interest.
Michael Scheuer
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
Daniel Barenboim
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales
Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.
Koena Mitra
I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.
Sheikh Hasina
‘Peace Train’ is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
George W. Bush
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
Joe Biden
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
ร“scar Arias
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.
Monica Johnson