Peace Quotes

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations… is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists.

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we do about peace. We know more about killing than we know about living.

My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary of peace.