Quotes containing word "peace"

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Sell also: pacification, peacefulness, repose, serenity

Definitions and meanings of word "peace"

• Noun: the state prevailing during the absence of war

• Noun: harmonious relations; freedom from disputes; example: "the roommates lived in peace together"

• Noun: the absence of mental stress or anxiety

• Noun: the general security of public places; example: "he was arrested for disturbing the peace"

• Noun: a treaty to cease hostilities; example: "peace came on November 11th"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "peace"

King Hussein I
10 quotes about peace
Jordanian Statesman
Thursday 14 November 1935 - Sunday 7 February 1999
Yitzhak Rabin
11 quotes about peace
Jewish Statesman
Wednesday 1 March 1922 - Saturday 4 November 1995
Arthur Henderson
12 quotes about peace
British Leader, Politician
Sunday 13 September 1863 - Sunday 20 October 1935
Lester B. Pearson
10 quotes about peace
Canadian Statesman, Historian, Politician, Diplomat
Friday 23 April 1897 - Wednesday 27 December 1972
Natan Sharansky
10 quotes about peace
Russian Writer
Born Tuesday 20 January 1948
Frank B. Kellogg
11 quotes about peace
American Statesman, Author, Politician, Lawyer
Monday 22 December 1856 - Tuesday 21 December 1937
Elihu Root
8 quotes about peace
American Statesman, Lawyer
Saturday 15 February 1845 - Sunday 7 February 1937
Paul Robeson
9 quotes about peace
American Critic, Actor, Activist
Saturday 9 April 1898 - Friday 23 January 1976
Benjamin Netanyahu
7 quotes about peace
Jewish Leader
Born Friday 21 October 1949
Fredrik Bajer
9 quotes about peace
Danish Writer, Politician
Friday 21 April 1837 - Sunday 22 January 1922
James F. Byrnes
6 quotes about peace
American Politician
Friday 2 May 1879 - Sunday 9 April 1972
Peace Pilgrim
8 quotes about peace
American Activist
Saturday 18 July 1908 - Tuesday 7 July 1981

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

David O. McKay

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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Thomas Merton

Words: peace, God
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A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

Yitzhak Rabin

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We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.

King Hussein I

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Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Nhat Hanh

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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum

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We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Ariel Sharon

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Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

John McCain

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The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

John McCarthy

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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Vaclav Havel

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And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

J. D. Hayworth

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We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

James F. Byrnes

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In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

Sun Myung Moon

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The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Jeff Sessions

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The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

Benjamin Netanyahu

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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

Prem Rawat

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Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Martin Luther

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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

Lester B. Pearson

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Elihu Root

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