Peace Quotes
“When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.”
“All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.”
-- Jock Sturges
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.”
-- Desmond Tutu
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
“Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.”
-- King Hussein I
“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.”
-- Herodotus
“For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.”
-- Camryn Manheim