Peace Quotes

“But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”

-- Mitch Daniels

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

-- Mother Teresa

“Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.”

-- William Glasser

“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.”

-- Milan Kundera

“Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.”

-- William Drummond

“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.”

-- Thomas Hardy

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”

-- Marvin Gaye

“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”

-- Gerald Jampolsky

“Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.”

-- Anwar Sadat

“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.”

-- Joseph Rotblat