“When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.”
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.
“Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.”
“When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.”
“Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.”
“Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.”
“Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.”
“Peace if possible, truth at all costs.”
“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”
“I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.”
“I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.”
“Arafat was a barrier to peace.”
“Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.”
“That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.”
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
“I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.”
“Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.”
“Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.”