Peace Quotes
“The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.”
“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
-- Petrarch
“When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.”
-- Rodney King
“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.”
-- Douglas MacArthur
“I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.”
-- Park Geun-hye
“Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.”
-- Corazon Aquino
“Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.”
-- Benjamin Netanyahu
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
-- George Eliot