Peace Quotes
“I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.”
“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”
-- H. L. Mencken
“President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.”
-- Lee H. Hamilton
“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”
-- David Sarnoff
“It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.”
-- Elihu Root
“I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.”
-- Shimon Peres
“Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.”
-- Kid Rock
“That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.”
-- Shimon Peres
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.”
-- Desmond Tutu