Peace Quotes
“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
-- Nhat Hanh
“Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.”
-- Gil Scott-Heron
“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.”
-- Michelle Bachelet
“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.”
-- Saint Teresa of Avila
“I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.”
-- King George V
“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
-- Nhat Hanh
“A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.”
-- Richard Holbrooke
“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
“The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.”
-- Natan Sharansky
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.”
-- Omar N. Bradley
“Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.”
-- Hillary Clinton