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Quotes about Striving For Peace
If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
— Bob Marley
While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.
— John Lennon
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?
— Anne Frank
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
— John Lennon
The purpose of all war is peace.
— St. Augustine
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
— George Bernard Shaw
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
— St. Augustine
There come times when we have to fight for peace.
— Billy Graham
For now I see peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
— John Milton
IF IT IS POSSIBLE, AS FAR AS IT DEPENDS ON YOU, LIVE AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE. Most people prefer to live peacefully with others, but when there are conflicts, many wait for the other person to make the first move. Problems inevitably arise when both parties wait for the other to take the first step.
— Sarah Young