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

“If you want peace work for justice.”

-- Pope Paul VI

“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.”

-- Henry A. Kissinger

“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”

-- Graham Greene

“I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.”

-- Godfrey Reggio

“You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'”

-- Benjamin Netanyahu

“If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.”

-- Ben Stein

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

-- Thomas Paine

“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”

-- Ovid

“I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.”

-- Edward Lear