1,173 quotes
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.
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.
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
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.
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?
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.