Peace Quotes
“The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.”
“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