We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ~William Ewart Gladstone
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. ~Robert Brault,
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me.
~Seymour Miller & Jill Jackson, “Let There Be Peace on Earth,” 1955
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. ~James Conrad
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists. ~William J. Clinton, 1997
The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. ~Vera Brittain, 1964
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Golda Meir
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ~Francesco Petrarch
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ~John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses
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