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.”
“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
-- Anton Chekhov
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
“With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.”
-- Theodore C. Sorensen
“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.”
-- Natan Sharansky
“While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”
-- Mary Wortley Montagu
“We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
-- Omar N. Bradley
“The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.”
-- Cornel West