Peace Quotes
“Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.”
“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”
-- Georges Bernanos
“It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.”
-- Elihu Root
“I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.”
-- Mandy Patinkin
“Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.”
-- Cat Stevens
“The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.”
-- David Mamet