Peace Quotes Page
Musical notes are more penetrating than bullets. Songs are more powerful than bombs.
- WPTTO
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
- Phil Ochs
If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
- Jimi Hendrix
If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
- Sophie Kerr
Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.
- Ted Turner
If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do; How would I be? And what would I do?
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.
- Chinese Proverb
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
- Anita Koddick
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
In India, when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste", which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
- Ram Dass
You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.
- Jeanette Rankin
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
- Kin Hubbard
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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 know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
- Larry Eisenberg
Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.
- Robert Fulghum
Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.
- Elie Wiesel
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
Seek peace, and pursue it.
- The Bible
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
- Harry S. Truman
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
- Maya Angelou
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings.
- Dalai Lama of Tibet (Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
- Oscar Arias
With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson
Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world -- indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Peace we want because there is another war to fight: against poverty and disease.
- Indira Gandhi
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
- UNESCO
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
- Peace Pilgrim
Imagine there's no countries, it isnt hard to do, nothing to kill or die for, no religion too, imagine all the people living life in peace... You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
- John Lennon
We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
- Omar Nelson Bradley
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding, and a development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
- Dalai Lama of Tibet (Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech)
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
- Marcus T. Cicero
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
- Joseph Conrad
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Sacred, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
- Black Elk
We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means may appear different, the ends are the same.
- Dalai Lama of Tibet (Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech)
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing, would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We call on the human family to address the root causes of violence and build a culture of peace and hope. We know that another world is possible, a world of justice and peace. Together we can make it a reality.
- Nobel Peace Laureates Centennial Appeal
A little peace here, a little peace there, and pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere.
- Swami Beyondananda
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
- Albert Einstein
Peace is loving that which is around you, not blindly or thoughtlessly, but with the full realization that it has value, that it is spiritually fit, that it is part of you and your world.
- Ronda
It is our duty to pray always for harmony between man and earth, so that the earth will bloom once more.
- Hopi Prayer for Peace
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
That's all nonviolence is -- organized love.
- Joan Baez
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
- Buddha
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
- Albert Camus
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
- Cesar Chavez
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
- Norman Cousins
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- Havelock Ellis
If war is a necessary evil, why not create peace as a necessary good? Build it, and everybody will come.
- Swami Beyondananda
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
- Matthew
Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.
- Madge Michaels-Cyrus
Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.
- Dalai Lama
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
Banish the word "struggle" from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
- Elders of the Hopi Nation
Nobody EXPECTS the Spanish Inquisition.
- Monty Python
