Peace Quotes
“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.”
“An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.”
-- John Paul Jones
“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”
-- Joseph Conrad
“The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.”
-- Francois Hollande
“One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.”
-- Baz Luhrmann
“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
-- Gaston Bachelard
“In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.”
-- Gustav Stresemann
“I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.”
-- Diego Maradona