Ah, when shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
-- Alfred Tennyson (The Golden Year)

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
-- Alfred Tennyson

* "All works of love are works of peace." -- Mother Teresa.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. ~ U Thant

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war - as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
-- Dorothy Thompson

Our goal must not be peace in our time but peace for all time.
-- Harry S. Truman

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
-- Harry S. Truman

"I love my country very much. But I must say I love people all over the world, and we better all start loving each other or we're going to blow each other to kingdom come." -- Ted Turner

"We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims."
-- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds
-- Paul Valery

We have war because we are not sufficiently heroic for a life which does not need war.
-- Bartolomeo Vanzeiti

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.
-- Joan Walsh

 

* To have a peaceful population, we must teach peace. -- Cora Weiss * "You cannot have peace without human rights, democracy, gender equality, and clean water. Look to the root causes of war and you will find, in their reverse, the root foundations of peace." -- Cora Weiss

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make ust he gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening. -- E.B. White

Peace is always beautiful ~ Walt Whitman

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

 

* Peace is our gift to each other. -- Elie Wiesel Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. -- Elie Wiesel * If only we could celebrate peace as our various ancestors celebrated war; if only we could glorify peace as those before us, thirsting for adventure, glorified war; if only our sages and scholars together could resolve to infuse peace with the same energy and inspiration that others have put into war.

* We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society. -- Betty Williams & the Peace People