Peace Quotes
“True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.”
“Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.”
-- Saint Teresa of Avila
“I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.”
-- King George V
“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
-- Nhat Hanh
“A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.”
-- Richard Holbrooke