Peace Quotes
9841 Peace quotes by 3934 unique authors
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately…
— Ambrose Bierce
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,…
— Conrad Black
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The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology…
— Tony Blair
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity…
— William Blake
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
— William Blake
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
— Aesop
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The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to…
— John Boehner
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
— John Bolton
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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War is the business of barbarians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her…
— Daniel Boone
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit…
— Elayne Boosler
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate…
— Norman Borlaug
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that…
— Barbara Boxer
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we…
— Omar N. Bradley
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
— Omar N. Bradley
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen…
— Hjalmar Branting
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Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.
— John O. Brennan
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