Peace Quotes

“You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.”

-- Charles Schumer

“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