Peace Quotes
“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”
“Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.”
-- George H. W. Bush
“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.”
-- Anna Lindh
“For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.”
-- King Hussein I
“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.”
-- Saint Isaac of Nineveh
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”
-- Baruch Spinoza
“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.”
-- Dag Hammarskjold