Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes
  1. Home
  2. Quotes
  3. Peace Quotes

Peace Quotes – Page 5

1,173 quotes

All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics
Filter by tag

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

King Hussein I

Statesman · Jordanian · 1935 – 1999

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Mason Cooley

Writer · American

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

Shirin Ebadi

Lawyer · Iranian · b. 1947

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

James T. Walsh

Politician · American · b. 1947

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Karl Liebknecht

Politician · German · 1871 – 1919

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Barack Obama

President · American · b. 1961

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Epictetus

Philosopher · Greek

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

Walter Kohn

Physicist · Austrian · b. 1923

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

George Ade

Playwright · American · 1866 – 1944

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.

Sargent Shriver

Politician · American · b. 1915

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Fredrik Bajer

Writer · Danish · 1837 – 1922

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

Politician · American · b. 1931

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

William Gurnall

Author · English

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Ugo Betti

Playwright · Italian · 1892 – 1953

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

Theologian · Egyptian

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck

Psychologist · American · 1936 – 2005

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

Ludwig Quidde

Critic · German · 1858 – 1941

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

William J. Clinton

President · American · b. 1946

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

Charles Foster Bass

Politician · American · b. 1952

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

Arthur Henderson

Politician · British · 1863 – 1935

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Seamus Heaney

Poet · Irish · b. 1939

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

Frederick Reines

Physicist · American · 1918 – 1998

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras

Mathematician · Greek

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

Pope John XXIII

Clergyman · Italian · 1881 – 1963

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

Solomon Ortiz

Politician · American · b. 1937

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Gustav Stresemann

Politician · German · 1878 – 1929

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

President · American · 1911 – 2004

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

Timothy Radcliffe

Clergyman · English

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

Michael Ignatieff

Politician · Canadian · b. 1947

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Swami Sivananda

Philosopher · Indian · 1887 – 1963

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Peace Pilgrim

Activist · American · 1908 – 1981

On all the peaks lies peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Fredrik Bajer

Writer · Danish · 1837 – 1922

Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.

Moshe Katsav

Statesman · Israeli · b. 1945

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Fredrik Bajer

Writer · Danish · 1837 – 1922

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Arthur Henderson

Politician · British · 1863 – 1935

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

Hun Sen

Statesman · Cambodian · b. 1951

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

Nick Rahall

Politician · American · b. 1949

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

Douglas Feith

Public Servant · American · b. 1953

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Arthur Henderson

Politician · British · 1863 – 1935

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

Paul Bremer

Statesman · American · b. 1941

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Elihu Root

Lawyer · American · 1845 – 1937

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

George Whitefield

Clergyman · American · 1714 – 1770

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Anna Freud

Psychologist · Austrian · 1895 – 1982

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

Arthur Henderson

Politician · British · 1863 – 1935

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Lytton Strachey

Critic · English · 1880 – 1932

Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

Gustav Stresemann

Politician · German · 1878 – 1929

Previous
  1. Page 1
  2. …
  3. Page 3
  4. Page 4
  5. Page 5
  6. Page 6
  7. Page 7
  8. …
  9. Page 10
Next

Related quote topics

  • kindness quotes
  • gratitude quotes
  • patience quotes
  • philosophy quotes

Authors with peace quotes

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes
  • John Lennon quotes
  • George W. Bush quotes
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026