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“I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.”
Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) first seen 1712 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 11 to Grimarest: Passages Concerning the Abbe de St. Pierre's 'Project for Perpetual Peace (June 1712). Taken from Leibniz: Political Writings (2nd Edition, 1988), Edited by Patrick Riley.
“On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A New Slant on Life (1998).
“If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dept. of Govt. Affairs (August 15, 1960).
“Today Israel and India are embattled democracies, sharing values and the challenge of terrorism. United in our quest for life, liberty and peace our joint determination to fight for these values can inspire our hopes for a better future for our people.”
Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sharon pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, 9 September 2003, http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/sep/09sharon2.htm
“Give me love, give me peace on earth, Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Book Which Reveals Men to Themselves”, Address on the Tercentenary of the Tranlation of the Bible (7 May 1911) in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 104
“Some men who are not real men love other things about themselves, but the real man believes that his honor is dearer than his life; and a nation is merely all of us put together, and the nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort and the nation's peace and the nation's life itself.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Cleveland (January 1916)
“There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Des Moines Iowa speech (1 February 1916), on "The Westerm Preparedness Tour
“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“1. Open covenants of peace must be arrived at.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But where is our, dear to us, mortality? Where is time that both destroys and saves us? This is too difficult for me. Peace eternal Could have no mornings and no evenings, Such a deficiency speaks against it.”
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How It Should Be in Heaven" (1986), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz and Robert Hass
“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”
Lewis Black (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There 's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.”
Samuel Butler (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Samuel Butler
“As non-aligned countries, both the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Malaysia can play a constructive role in bringing about the peace that we so desire in our respective regions.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We firmly believe that such a solution would pave the way for the realisation of our objective of a Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality in Southeast Asia.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your visit stimulates not only the common desire to enhance further our bilateral relations but also reinforces the political will and commitment to the search for peace for the benefit of all concerned.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientific knowledge should be used not merely for material development, but also for the enhancement of the quality of life, and the achievement of peace and harmony.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ASEAN would pursue the creation of a Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality in Southeast Asia. The leaders of ASEAN firmly believe that given their freedom from superpower dominance and interference, neighbouring states could successfully set aside their differences to forge a common purpose.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has long been recognised that the political situation in Southeast Asia, directly or indirectly, impinges on Japan's economic and strategic interests. A prosperous and stable ASEAN is important to the maintenance of peace and stability in the region and therefore merits Japan's support.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The foreign military invasion and continued occupation of Kampuchea is a crime against the Kampuchean people and a threat to regional peace and security.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These are troubled times: not only have we to contend with a major world-wide economic recession, but also serious challenges to the peace and stability of our region. It is, therefore, all the more imperative that we continue working together both bilaterally and within the context of ASEAN.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Malaysia will work closely with Thailand for the preservation of peace and stability in the region.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The motive-force for the success of ASEAN lies in our firm belief in peace and in working together for the prosperity of all in the region.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vietnam's military intervention and continued occupation of Kampuchea represents not only a direct interference in the internal affairs of the country, but a threat to the peace and stability of the whole region. The establishment of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea headed by His Highness Prince Norodom Sihanouk is a positive development.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Kampuchea issue, if not resolved peacefully and promptly, will also become a threat to world peace and security as continued foreign occupation of Kampuchea has brought in its wake big power rivalry and involvement.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There can be no peace in the Middle East for the United States, for the Arabs or for the Israelis, unless and until the basic and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people are restored to them.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Clearly Islam the religion is not the cause of terrorism. Islam, as I said, is a religion of peace. However through the centuries, deviations from the true teachings of Islam take place. And so [people who call themselves] "Muslims" kill despite the injunction of their religion against killing especially of innocent people.”
Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (4 August 1964)
“On this hallowed ground, heroic deeds were performed and eloquent words were spoken a century ago. We, the living, have not forgotten–and the world will never forget–the deeds or the words of Gettysburg. We honor them now as we join on this Memorial Day of 1963 in a prayer for permanent peace of the world and fulfillment of our hopes for universal freedom and justice.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too — a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people — so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Therefore, I believe that we both have a heavy obligation to seek earnestly the path to peace. It is in response to that obligation that I am writing directly to you.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think it is the duty of every citizen, in the present condition of the Country, to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony. It is particularly incumbent upon those charged with the instruction of the young to set them an example.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to trustees, as quoted in "Honoring Lee Anew" (15 July 2014), by David Cox, A Magazine of Student Thought and Opinion
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“/.../I would never shake the hand of a person like the German foreign minister, nor would I let him in my house. He is the prototype of a shameful politician; the one who makes a career as a protester and a friend of the peace, in order to use his official ideals to get a well paid position as a war mongering foreign minister. A political scum.”
Joschka Fischer (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gender equality is critical for the development and peace of every nation.”
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a policy going a begging; the general policy that Sir Robert Peel in 1841 took office to support—the policy of peace abroad, of economy, of financial equilibrium, of steady resistance to abuses, and promotion of practical improvements at home, with a disinclination to questions of reform, gratuitously raised.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Whitwell Elwin (2 December 1856), quoted in John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Volume I (1903), p. 553
“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. My second principle of foreign policy is this—that its aim ought to be to preserve to the nations of the world—and especially, were it but for shame, when we recollect the sacred name we bear as Christians, especially to the Christian nations of the world—the blessings of peace. That is my second principle.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 115.
“[The publication of The Jubilee of Free Trade is] an act of great gallantry for the Cobdenian faith is in all points at a heavy discount—Peace, Retrenchment, Free Trade and all the rest of it, to my great grief I must confess.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Thomas Fisher Unwin (2 June 1896), quoted in Anthony Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England 1846–1946 (1997), p. 192
“What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Betrayals", p. 1; first published in Blue Motel (1994)
“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten tired of this tiny space, but I'd had a good home here. In the time it takes to swill two cans of beer, all had had sublimed like morning mist. My job, my whiskey, my peace and quiet, my solitude, my Somerset Maugham, and John Ford collections-all of it trashed and worthless.”
Haruki Murakami (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are going to keep preaching the gospel that freedom and democracy in peace are indivisible values in the world and that no one can have them unless they are universal and all people may share them.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the special constitutional convention of the United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan, January 22, 1958, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 215
“You cannot make peace and freedom secure in the world as long as hundreds of millions of people are denied the necessities of life, so long as millions and millions of people are committed to belong to the have-not nations, and they and their children are denied the right to achieve economic and social justice.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address accepting the Presidency of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 4, 1952, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 49-50 thumb|The…
“Free labor understands and acts in the knowledge the the struggle for peace and the struggle for human freedom are inseparably tied together with the struggle for social justice.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 131
“I have been saying for a long time that I believe the more young Americans who are trained to join with other young people in the world to be sent abroad with slide rule, textbook, and medical kit to help people help themselves with the tools of peace, the fewer young people will need to be sent with guns and weapons of war.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 136 thumb|We have to reassert the sovereignty of peop…
“The great challenge before us is to find a way to get people and nations working together in the positive and rewarding task of peace as they have repeatedly joined together in the senseless and destructive waging of war.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141
“I ask this simple question. I ask it of you and I ask it of my fellow Americans everywhere. Why is it that we have the courage to mobilize the power of America to meet the challenge of war, but we fail to have the same courage to mobilize America to meet the challenge of peace?”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 23, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 184
“Freedom, like peace, can be made secure only as it is made universal.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280
“This is our goal—a world of peace, freedom, and social justice for all people everywhere.”
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address before the Berlin Freedom Rally, West Berlin, Germany, May 1, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 280