7,293 Quotes About Peace

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

Do you really want to hold onto empty things? We don’t have to give anything up. They just need transforming. A thousand years of happiness would be much better than another thousand years of tears, don’t you think?

You must have hope in a better future and have faith in this hope. But then you must forget your hope and focus on this moment now.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property