Peace Quotes

9841 Peace quotes by 3934 unique authors

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the… — Gaston Bachelard
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History… — Lord Acton
Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? — Joan Baez
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. — Joan Baez
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. — James A. Baldwin
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. — Robert Ballard
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. — Edward Abbey
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. — Edward Abbey
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and… — Franklin P. Adams
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul… — George Matthew Adams
When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve. — Javier Bardem
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself. — Brigitte Bardot
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill… — John Adams
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of… — James Truslow Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. — John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch

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