Peace Quotes

People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

Powerful, Moral, Natural

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau

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

Great, Give, Impossible

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Battle, Knew, Tests

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

Love, War, Willing

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright

Home, School, Begins

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris

Happen, Able, Whatever

The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Zinedine Zidane

Father, Important, Country

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
Prem Rawat

Declare, Establish

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Phyllis McGinley

Healing, Body, Measure

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell

Time, Matter, Passes

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro

Love, War, Fought

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow

Business, Two, Paint

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy

Freedom, Future, Learning

Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti

Power, Peaceful

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery

Her, Peaceful, Silver

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan

Change, Live, Impossible

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson

Order, Achieved, Passivity

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle

Good, Home, Sleep

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

Cannot, Hands, Force

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Parenting, Happiness, Family

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

Christmas, Time, Mind

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

May, Child, Trouble

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