Peace Quotes
“As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.”
“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