Peace Quotes

Before the terrifying prospects now available to humanity, we see even more clearly that peace is the only goal worth struggling for. This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments – a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.

There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare a peace upon the world, and win it.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which… is within the souls of men. (Lakota holy man)

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.