Peace Quotes
“Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.”
-- Gary Busey
“I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.”
-- Chris Evans
“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
-- Woodrow Wilson
“Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.”
-- David O. McKay
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
-- George Washington
“As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.”
-- George J. Mitchell
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
-- Helen Keller
“I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.”
-- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.”
-- Shimon Peres
“We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.”
-- Geraldine Ferraro
“I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.”
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick
“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.”
-- Reinhold Niebuhr