Peace Quotes
“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.”
“I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.”
-- Alan Dershowitz
“Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.”
-- Sandra Cisneros
“It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.”
-- Arthur Henderson
“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi
“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.”
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt