Peace Quotes
“My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.”
“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