Peace Quotes
John F. Kennedy, Shakespeare, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama and Isaac Herzog lead, which makes the page heavy on speeches. For older sources, Byron’s The Bride of Abydos (1813) has the line about a conqueror who makes a solitude and calls it peace. Keats, in Hyperion (1819), has the days of peace and slumberous calm fled, and Albert Schweitzer, in Kulturphilosophie (1923), says man will not himself find peace until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things.
Flagged: Patrick Henry’s “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?” and Publilius Syrus on providing in peace what we need in war are both disputed. A passage on creating chaos through psychopolitics, credited to Lavrentiy Beria, is marked misattributed.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.