Famous PEACE Quotes

Following is a collection of a few of the many famous quotes on the topic of PEACE. Please feel free to share any others you may wish to contribute by sending us an email via our Contact Us page.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption,
its necessary consequence. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.  ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. ~ George C. Marshall

Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are. ~ Hafsat Abiola

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. ~ Black Elk

There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a
dimension of our every waking activity.  ~ Elise Boulding

Peace is the only battle worth waging.  ~ Albert Camus

We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when
confronted with peace? ~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau

There was never a good war or a bad peace.  ~ Ben Franklin

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power.
Then will our world know the blessings of peace.  ~ William Gladstone

Peace-making is a healing process and it begins with me, but it does not end there.
~ Gene Knudsen Hoffman

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.  ~ Daisaku Ikeda

Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
~ Petra Karin Kelly

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation.
It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Here then, is the problem we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable:
Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
~ The Russell-Einstein Manifesto

Time itself becomes subordinate to war. 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.
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal?
We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war? Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it?
I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war.
Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?
~ Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner.