Peace Quotes
“Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.”
-- Sargent Shriver
“When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.”
-- Shimon Peres
“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
-- Dorothy Thompson
“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”
-- Gerry Adams
“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”
-- Etty Hillesum
“It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.”
-- William Hague
“Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
“What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.”
-- Stevie Wonder
“The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.”
-- Elihu Root
“We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.”
-- Peter Yarrow
“To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”
-- Anatole Broyard
“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.”
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
-- Lester B. Pearson