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
God is peace, His name is peace, and all is bound together in peace.
~Judaism: Zohar, Leviticus 10b
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
An eye for an eye... and the whole world is blind.
~Gandhi
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
~Christianity. Bible, Matthew 5.9
One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobodys' business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let not hatred of any people seduce you that ye deal not justly.
~Muslim: Quran, 5:8
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~John F. Kennedy
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart
Peace be to earth and to airy spaces!
Peace be to heaven, peace to the waters,
peace to the plants and peace to the trees!
May all the gods grant me peace!
By this invocation of peace may peace be diffused!
By this invocation of peace may peace bring peace!
With this peace the dreadful I appease,
with this peace the cruel I appease,
with this peace all evil I appease,
so that peace may prevail, happiness prevail!
May everything for us be peaceful!
~Hinduism. Atharva Veda 19.9.14
