Peace Quotes

“War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.”

-- Gustav Heinemann

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

-- Thomas Mann

“You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”

-- Yitzhak Rabin

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.”

-- William Pennington

“Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.”

-- Sharon Stone

“This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.”

-- Jet Li

“There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.”

-- Douglas William Jerrold

“True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”

-- Gerrit Smith

“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”

-- John Lennon