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.”
“It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.”
-- Pierre Bayle
“If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.”
-- Bernard Baruch
“Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.”
-- James Q. Wilson
“We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.”
-- King Abdullah II
“But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”
-- Mitch Daniels
“To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”
-- Tacitus
“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.”
-- Margaret Walker