Peace Quotes

“I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.”

-- Richard Cobden

“And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.”

-- Lester B. Pearson

“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence

“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”

-- Baruch Spinoza

“I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.”

-- Paul Robeson

“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.”

-- Eugene O'Neill

“If you want peace work for justice.”

-- Pope Paul VI

“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.”

-- Henry A. Kissinger

“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”

-- Graham Greene

“I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.”

-- Godfrey Reggio