Peace Quotes
“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.”
-- Jenny Shipley
“To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.”
-- Morihei Ueshiba
“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.”
-- David Mamet
“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.”
-- Ho Chi Minh
“Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
“I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.”
-- Lech Walesa
“Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.”
-- Ron Silver
“The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.”
-- Walter Ulbricht
“Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.”
-- Mos Def
“Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.”
-- Brian Celio
“Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.”
-- Lauren Conrad
“United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.”
-- Richard Holbrooke
“My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.”
-- Joseph Rotblat
“For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.”
-- Gustav Stresemann
“The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.”
-- Arthur Henderson