Peace Quotes
“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.”
-- Gordie Howe
“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.”
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
-- William Shakespeare
“Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.”
-- Billy Campbell
“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.”
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
“The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.”
-- John Bolton
“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.”
-- Joan Jett
“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”
-- Shirley MacLaine
“I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.”
-- Benjamin Netanyahu
“Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.”
-- James Buchan
“Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.”
-- Lena Horne
“The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.”
-- Anna Lindh
“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.”
-- Yahya Jammeh