Peace Quotes

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.”

-- Thomas Hardy

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”

-- Marvin Gaye

“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”

-- Gerald Jampolsky

“Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.”

-- Anwar Sadat

“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.”

-- Joseph Rotblat

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”

-- Anton Chekhov

“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.”

-- Gustav Heinemann

“With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.”

-- Theodore C. Sorensen