Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm, Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
~ Matthew Arnold
Peace be with you.
~ The Bible: Genesis XLIII. 23
Give peace in our time, O Lord.
~ The Book of Common Prayer
Then all that has divided us will merge
And then compassion will be wedded to power
And then softness will come to a world that is harsh and unkind
And then both men and women will be gentle
And then both women and men will be strong
And then no person will be subject to another's will
And then all will be rich and free and varied
And then the greed of some will give way to the needs of many
And then all will share equally in the earth's abundance
And then all will care for the sick and the weak and the old
And then all will nourish the young
And then all will cherish life's creatures
And then all will live in harmony with each other and with the earth
And everywhere will be called Eden, once again.
~ Judy Chicago
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
~ Joseph Conrad
"What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?"
~ Elvis Costello
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state."
~ Albert Einstein
"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
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
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
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
~ Helen Keller
So we must fix our vision not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but upon the positive affirmation of peace.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I am about is a more peaceful, harmonious, and just planet.
~ Brian Klemmer
"We want peace!"
~ Lenny Kravitz
All we are saying is give peace a chance...
~ John Lennon
And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
~ John Lennon
Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
~ Javier Perez de Cuellar
Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.
~ John Robbins (b. 1914-)
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens~ when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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
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
