Peace Quotes
“After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.”
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”
-- John Foster Dulles
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.”
-- Kenichi Fukui
“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.”
-- George Whitefield
“You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.”
-- Larry Brown
“I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.”
-- Naguib Mahfouz
“There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.”
-- John Boyd Orr