Peace Quotes
“I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.”
-- Anne Lamott
“I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.”
-- Brooke Burke
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
-- John Wooden
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
-- Adam Smith
“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
-- Serj Tankian
“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.”
-- Tony Snow
“There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.”
-- Frank B. Kellogg
“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.”
-- John Andrew Holmes
“I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.”
-- Caroline Kennedy
“The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.”
-- John Boehner
“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.”
-- Emanuel Swedenborg
“As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.”
-- Rodney King
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
-- Nelson Mandela