Quotes about Peace
There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.
- Wayne Dyer
I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.
- Will Smith
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
- William Hazlitt
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
- Mother Teresa
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
- Franklin Pierce
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
- Mark Twain
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
- John Quincy Adams
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
- Helen Keller