936 private quotes tagged peace

“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.” — Joseph Conrad

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“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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“At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.” — Charlize Theron

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“May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.” — Islom Karimov

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“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.” — Richard Holbrooke

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“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

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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” — Yoko Ono

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“I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.” — Herman Cain

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“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.” — Louis Farrakhan

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“Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.” — Dmitri Mendeleev

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“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.” — Imelda Marcos

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“What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.” — Wyclef Jean

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“Peace is produced by war.” — Pierre Corneille

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“I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.” — Jermaine Jackson

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“Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.” — Benjamin Netanyahu

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“We do not want riches, we want peace and love.” — Red Cloud

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“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” — Stefan Zweig

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“But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.” — Tony Blair

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“Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.” — Charles Wilson

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“A bad peace is even worse than war.” — Tacitus

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“When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.” — Janeane Garofalo

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“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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