Quotes and Sayings about Peace

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Bob Marley had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - he said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

There is no "way to peace," there is only "peace".

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Everybody can fight. It's just a choice of whether you should.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

My daughter speaks with the wisdom beyond her years. We've all come here with anger in our hearts, but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward, if there is to be more killing, it will not start with me.

I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness -- not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world -- millions of despairing men, women and little children -- victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say -- do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed -- the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes -- men who despise you -- enslave you -- who regiment your lives -- tell you what to do -- what to think or what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men -- machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate! Only the unloved hate -- the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: 'the Kingdom of God is within man' -- not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power -- the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

We make peace with our enemies, not our friends.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Does not a warm hand feel better than a cold shank?

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

The grave of a soldier is the biggest preacher for peace.

It's harder to hold a hand than hold a gun.

Peace requires a steady hand.

Peace requires two participants.

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too

No armies, no war, no oppression - but words have the ability to change the course of things.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Peace begins with a smile.

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, there was hope of victory. Japan realized, for the first time, they could lose and began to pull back. America realized, that she would win and surged forward. It was a war, that changed America and the world. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1.177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls, and through the trial, we overcame.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.