* "It Is possible to live in peace." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
-- Martha Gellhorn

It is easier to lead men to combat and to stir up their passions than to temper them and urge them to the patient labors of peace.
--Andre Gide

* May Peace Prevail On Earth! -- Masahisa Goi

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations. -- Mikhail Gorbachev Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value. -- Mikhail Gorbachev

* The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. --Dag Hammarskjold

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need. -- Poul Hartling

* When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix

"Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts -- to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, “I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members.” At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go."
-- Noeleen Heyzer

 

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.-- Dolores Huerta

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us. -- Cordell Hull

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people. -- John Hume

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many. -- Hubert Humphrey

The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one's life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. -- Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)

"We proclaim our commitment to continue to strive for the establishment of lasting world peace." -- Iccho Itoh

* Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face. -- Jesse Jackson

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations ~ Thomas Jefferson

"There are plenty of people who pray for peace but if praying were enough it would have come to be." -- Jewel

"It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory." -- Scarlett Johansson

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
-- Lyndon B Johnson

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson

Quotes for Peace