936 private quotes tagged peace

“It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.”— Louis Finkelstein

“Ignorance is a menace to peace.”— Paul Harris

“The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition that's how we bring peace.”— Rob Bell

“There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.”— Helen Thomas

“I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.”— Ehud Olmert

“To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.”— Pauline Hanson

“Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.”— John Boyd Orr

“True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.”— Gerrit Smith

“It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.”— Gerrit Smith

“Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.”— Martin McGuinness

“Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.”— Susan Rice

“Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.”— John McCain

“In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.”— Solomon Ortiz

“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

“Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.”— Ismail Haniyeh

“I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.”— Gunter Grass

“We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.”— Geraldine Ferraro

“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”— Eisaku Sato

“Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.”— Zebulon Pike

“My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.”— Joseph Rotblat

“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

“They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.”— Georg Buchner

“Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.”— John Bruton

“But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.”— Paul Robeson

“It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.”— Elihu Root