Peace Quotes
“You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.”
“All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.”
-- Jock Sturges
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.”
-- Desmond Tutu
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
“Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.”
-- King Hussein I
“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.”
-- Herodotus
“For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.”
-- Camryn Manheim