Peace Quotes
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.”
“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