Peace Quotes

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."

Desiderius Erasmus

"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind."

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

"To reach peace, teach peace."

Pope John Paul II

"If you want peace, work for justice."

Pope Paul VI

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: 'God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; The Wrong shall fail, The Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men.'"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict."

Dorothy Thompson

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."

Agatha Christie

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

"War is what happens when language fails."

Margaret Atwood

"War is always a defeat for humanity."

Pope John Paul II

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."

George Orwell

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."

Martin Luther

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."

Martin Luther

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."

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

Anton Chekhov

"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."

Brian Tracy