Peace Quotes

“The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.”

-- Cornel West

“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