Peace Quotes

"Religion can bring stability and order to a country, but it can also drive them into explosive conflict" "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin." "Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative." "The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout." "Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance" "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it" "I want to be like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and John Lennon but I want to stay alive" "Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be" "The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living and a hope by their industry to obtain them" "War is a defeat for humanity" "Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice" "Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread " "The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts" "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you" "Silence? What can be better than to sit thus by the hour and be soothed with the world" "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling" "As an adherent of nonviolence, I cannot consistently support war." "It is easier to start a war than to end it" "Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war"