Quotes about Peace
Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
— Mother Teresa
The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
— Franklin Pierce
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.
— Gregory of Nyssa
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
— Mark Twain
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
— Golda Meir
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
— Helen Keller
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
— Pope John Paul II
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
— Abbie Hoffman