Quotes about Peace
Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.
- Jack Kerouac
A blessed night. I immediately fell into a blank thoughtless trance wherein it was again revealed to me "This thinking has stopped" and I sighed because I didn't have to think any more and felt my whole body sink into a blessedness surely to be believed, completely relaxed and at peace with all the ephemeral world of dream and dreamer and the dreaming itself.
- Jack Kerouac
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
- John Milton
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No war or battle sound was heard the world around.
- John Milton
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Laws are inoperative in war
- Cicero
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
- John F. Kennedy
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.
- Carl Sagan
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We still seek no wider war.
- Lyndon B. Johnson