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.”

-- Wangari Maathai

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

-- Mother Teresa

“Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.”

-- William Glasser

“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.”

-- Milan Kundera

“Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.”

-- William Drummond

“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.”

-- Thomas Hardy

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”

-- Marvin Gaye

“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”

-- Gerald Jampolsky

“Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.”

-- Anwar Sadat

“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.”

-- Joseph Rotblat