Peace Quotes
“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”
“A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.”
-- Kwame Nkrumah
“Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.”
-- Sargent Shriver
“When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.”
-- Shimon Peres
“Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
-- Dorothy Thompson
“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”
-- Gerry Adams