Peace Quotes
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.”
-- Ludwig von Mises
“Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.”
-- King Hussein I
“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.”
-- Herodotus
“For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.”
-- Camryn Manheim
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.”
-- Greta Garbo
“I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.”
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
“It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.”
-- King Hussein I
“True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.”
-- Lester B. Pearson
“God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.”
-- King Hussein I
“We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.”
-- Mitch Albom
“Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.”
-- Yitzhak Rabin
“You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.”
-- Benjamin Netanyahu
“When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.”
-- Ann Beattie
“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”
-- Andrew Jackson