PEACE QUOTES
Selected by

Ashley LaCasse

 

A sword kills one, the tongue kills thousands.  – A Finnish proverb

All the world smiles in the same language.  – A Mexican Proverb

Respect for the rights of another, that is peace.  – A Mexican-American Proverb

Benjamin Franklin: There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Croesus: In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Dorothy Thompson:

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

H. H. the Dalai Lama: We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

H. H. the Dalai Lama: I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

H. H. the Dalai Lama:When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

Howard Nemerov:  Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Indira Gandhi: You can't shake hands with a clenched fist

John F.Kennedy:  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Maha Ghosananda: When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.

Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.:  One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

 

Moshe Dayan: If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

 

Thich Nhat Hanh: The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

“The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.” – Chinese Proverb

“All we are saying is give peace a chance.” – John Lennon

John F. Kennedy:  “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

      -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

If you want peace, work for justice.

      -- Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)

Peace is always beautiful.

      -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Mohandas K. Gandhi: An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.