Peace Quotes

“When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.”

-- Wangari Maathai

“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.”

-- Thomas Hardy

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”

-- Marvin Gaye

“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”

-- Gerald Jampolsky

“Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.”

-- Anwar Sadat

“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.”

-- Joseph Rotblat

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”

-- Anton Chekhov

“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

“The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.”

-- Gustav Heinemann

“With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.”

-- Theodore C. Sorensen