Peace Quotes
“Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.”
“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”
-- A. J. Muste
“It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.”
-- Louis Finkelstein
“My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.”
-- Aung San Suu Kyi
“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
-- Thomas Huxley
“The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
-- Malcom X