Peace Quotes

"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together."

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it."

"There is no 'way to peace,' peace is the way."

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

"If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with children."

"More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars."

"I sometimes think that the saving of the Union depends upon the charity of the people toward one another."

"We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom."

"In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor."

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."

"I have come to believe that nonviolence is more powerful than violence."

"True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force—violence, war, evil—but it is the presence of some positive force: justice, goodwill, and brotherhood."

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

"There can be no peace until we recognize that poverty is a form of violence."

"The choice before us is not between violence and nonviolence, but between nonviolence and nonexistence."

"Violence begets violence; love begets love. Choose wisely what legacy you will leave."

"Peace begins when we stop seeking victory and start seeking understanding."

"We are not enemies, but friends."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise."

"Peace begins within the human heart"

"Peace is the consequence of justice"

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

"The greatest threat to peace is injustice and inequality."

"Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because guns and arms alone have never succeeded in creating a lasting peace."

"Violence breeds violence. Hatred breeds hatred. And there is no nation which is immune to the cancer of hatred."

"Forgiveness is the hardest word to write."

"Memory and forgetting are the same act."

"The path to peace requires understanding the enemy."

"In silence, we hear the music of our own becoming."