Peace Quotes

9841 Peace quotes by 3934 unique authors

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had — Joni Mitchell
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of… — Frances Harper
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they… — Chief Joseph
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with… — Lewis Mumford
We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave. — Emiliano Zapata
I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous… — Patch Adams
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive… — Mahnaz Afkhami
For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative… — Agnivesh
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than… — Agnivesh
Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart. — Oscar Arias
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946,… — Daniel Berrigan
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will… — Cesar Chavez
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values,… — Fethullah Gulen
I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace… — Cordell Hull
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance,… — John F. Kennedy
There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. — Irene Khan
The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination,… — Colman McCarthy
Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our… — Unknown Author
We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and… — Unknown Author

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