Peace Quotes
“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.”
-- Elihu Root
“The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.”
-- Ted Rall
“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.”
-- Alfred Nobel
“Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.”
-- Paul Robeson
“Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.”
-- Daisaku Ikeda
“When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.”
-- Charles Stanley
“For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
-- Baruch Spinoza
“If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.”
-- Larry Hagman
“Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.”
-- Thor Heyerdahl
“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”
-- Kin Hubbard