Peace Quotes

Peace is more than the absence of war — it is a state of mind, a way of relating to others, and a goal worth pursuing even when it seems impossible. These quotes explore inner peace, world peace, and everything in between.

“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”

Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.”

Sharon Stone

“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”

Niccolo Machiavelli

“Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.”

Norman Borlaug

“The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?”

Arthur Henderson

“I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.”

Jackson Browne

“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”

Baruch Spinoza

“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”

Desiderius Erasmus

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

Mother Teresa

“Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.”

Paul Robeson

“Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.”

Elihu Root

“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”

Friedrich Durrenmatt

“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”

Jimmy Carter

“But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.”

Tony Blair

“God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.”

King Hussein I

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