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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
- Jimi Hendrix (
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
- George Carlin
“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
“It’s odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don’t hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to rid the world of evil-doers.”
- Arundhati Roy
“There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.”
- Kofi Annan
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.”
- Albert Einstein
“The opposite of war is not peace, it’s creation.”
- Jonathan Larson
“Unless we teach children peace, someone else will teach them violence.”
- Colman McCarthy
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is–whether its victim is human or animal–we cannot expect things to be much better in this world… We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.”
- Rachel Carson
“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned; until there is no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.”
- Haile Selassie Former Emperor Of Ethiopia,
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines is one line of the law, bringing peace.”
- Gautama Buddha
“The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.”
- Alexander Hamilton
“If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there’d be no wars.”
- Sophie Kerr
“You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.”
- Max Lerner 1992, Russia And USA)
“Ignorance is a menace to peace.”
- Paul Harris
“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”
- Pablo Neruda (
“There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.”
- Elise Boulding
“War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.”
- Elise Boulding
“Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.”
- Hafsat Abiola
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”
- A. J. Muste
“We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.”
- Jackie Chan,
“Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.”
- Jack DuVall
“The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.”
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier