Quotes about Peace
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
— Ronald Reagan
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
— William McKinley
The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
— Rachel Held Evans
The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.
— George W. Bush
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
— Alfred Nobel
the better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
— Mother Teresa
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt