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“I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.”
Julie Andrews (born 1935) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saturday Evening Post (February 1980)
“… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extract from his 1922 election address, quoted in T.W. Walding (ed.), Who's Who in the New Parliament:Members and their pledges (Philip Gee, London, 1922), p. 35
“The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace. … This is a War Budget. We can look in the future for no advance in Social Legislation. All available resources are to be devoted to armaments.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast (22 April 1936), quoted in "Mr. Attlee on a war budget", The Times (23 April 1936), p. 16.
“In the coming months the need is for the people of this country to do two things. First, to increase the national production; and, secondly, to exercise restraint in demands for increased incomes and self-control in expenditure... I am confident that in peace just as we did in war, Britain will conquer them by determination, hard work, and by the cooperation of all.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom at the Dorchester Hotel (13 October 1949), quoted in The Times (14 October 1949), p. 4
“To ensure peace we needed stronger armed forces as a deterrent to aggression.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast (30 August 1950), quoted in The Times (31 August 1950), p. 4
“[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.”
Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kenneth Boulding (1975), International Systems: Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Politics. p. 375 as cited in: Bjørn Møller, Håkan Wiberg (1994) Non-offensive defence for the twenty-first century. p. 36
“A WORD FROM NOBEL LAUREATE MUHAMMAD YUNUS: (in video) Thank you so much for clicking on me. I am Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, and, oh yeah, I'm also the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. To find an entrepreneur you want to lend to, click on my nose... if you can catch it. It's up here! Now down here! Too slow! Okay, I'll hold still. No, I won't. Ha-ha! Good-bye!”
Muhammad Yunus (born 1940) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Simpsons, , October 3, 2010
“It is impossible that Christendom finds its peace in God's will, if the priesthood is not being called to order.”
Jan Hus (1370–1415) said by 1415 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.”
Dōgen (1200–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ascribing human brotherhood, social justice, world peace, self-sacrifice and compassion to Christianity and Islam is tantamount to proclaiming that the wolf is a votary of vegetarianism.”
Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tolerance" is not only the acceptance that people, as diverse they may be, have the right to be as they are and to live in peace together. Tolerance — in the context of business — is also the recognition that to get what you want, you have to give something in return.”
Begum Aga Khan (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.”
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army (1981)
“Holy is the hand that works for peace and for justice, holy is the mouth that speaks for goodness, holy is the foot that walks toward mercy.”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no doubt about it. It is an illegal take-over. It's an illegal take-over to clean up the mess of a much bigger illegal activity of the previous government. So what choice do you have? To me, it's better that you do this illegal activity to clean up a much bigger, illegal mess so that we can bring peace … to the people of Fiji.”
Jona Senilagakali (1929–2011) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a December 6, 2006 interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
“I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.”
Martin Sheen (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. [1957, reacting on a remark of Picasso ]”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 151
“First of all, let me say, very shortly, that we have consistently worked with a single mind, with all the earnestness in our power, to preserve peace. The House may be satisfied on that point. We have always done it.”
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a grave matter that a treaty should be broken or arbitrarily set aside; it is still graver when the idea of the sanctity of treaties being the foundation of peace is considered so chimerical that no one who upholds it can be honest, and that resentment at the breach of a treaty must necessarily be pretence and hypocrisy. That all this is of bad augury for the future of Europe is certain.”
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Corfu incident; letter to The Times (9 October 1923), p. 13
“I believe it is absolutely true that for the peace of Europe good relations between France and Germany are the key to the situation. It should be the business of the British Government not to take a side with France or with Germany, but to collaborate in the cementing of good feelings between them.”
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to a meeting held by League of Nations Union in the Albert Hall, London (7 March 1932), quoted in The Times (8 March 1932), p. 16
“I've already done studies [for his large-scale painting w:The Burial at Ornans ] of the mayor, who weighs 400, the parish priest, the justice of the peace, the cross bearer, the notary Marlet, the assistant mayor, my friends, my father, the choirboys, the grave digger, two old revolutionaries from [17]'93...”
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark to Champfleury, (End of 1849); as quoted in Georges Riat Gustave Courbet, Parkstone International (2015).
“How goes your peace conference? Slowly. Having exhausted the possibilities of every other form of mass-murder they could possibly employ against each other, the natives now appear intent on boring each other to death. They may finally have discovered their true calling.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All we know is that life is sweet and that it does not last long. Why should people be envious of each other? Why do we hate each other? Why can't we live at peace in a world that is so beautiful and so wide?”
William March (1893–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.”
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want sculpture to show the wonder of man, that flowing water, rocks, clouds vegetation have for the man in peace who glories in existence.. .Its existence will be its statement”
David Smith (1906–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It will say that in peace we have time that a man has vision, has been fed, has worked.. ..That hands and minds and tools and material made a symbol to the elevation of vision”
David Smith (1906–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God, please make me a channel of your peace." The first line of the St. Francis prayer, popularized by Mother Teresa, bastardized by Margaret Thatcher, and cherished by those of us who have fallen through the cracks and floated ourselves back up with crack.”
Russell Brand (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.”
Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You either love me or hate me in peace and war.”
Ruggedman (born 1976) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peace or War", Thy Album Come (2003)
“With respect to the Reform Bill itself, I will repeat now the declaration I made when I entered the House of Commons as a member of the Reformed Parliament—that I consider the Reform Bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a great constitutional question—a settlement which no friend to the peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb, either by direct or by insidious means.”
Robert Peel (1788–1850) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tamworth Manifesto (18 December 1834)
“Our object will be—the maintenance of peace—the scrupulous and honourable fulfilment, without reference to their original policy, of all existing engagements with Foreign Powers—the support of public credit—the enforcement of strict economy—the just and impartial consideration of what is due to all interests—agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial.”
Robert Peel (1788–1850) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tamworth Manifesto (18 December 1834)
“If you can keep Peace, reduce expense, extend Commerce, and strengthen our hold on India by Confidence in our justice and kindness and wisdom, you will be received on your Return with acclamations a thousand times louder and a welcome infinitely more cordial than if you have a dozen victories to boast of, and annexe the Punjaub to the overgrown Empire of India.”
Robert Peel (1788–1850) first seen 1844 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Henry Hardinge, the Governor-General of India (6 November 1844), quoted in Donald Read, Peel and the Victorians (1987), p. 154
“Nations have not yet learnt to bear prosperity, liberty, and peace. They will learn it in a higher state of civilization. We think we are the models for posterity, when we are little better than beacons to help it to avoid the rocks and quicksands. The world is sadly slow to learn...”
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William Hargreaves, 1862., also quoted in Morley, 1905, p945
“And though it should perhaps cast all loose, (as you express;) yet We take God to witness, We have permitted them to doe many things in this Assembly, for establishing of Peace, contrary to Our Own Judgment. And if on this point a Rupture happen, We cannot help it; the fault is on their own part, which one day they may smart for. So you have in this Point Our full Resolution.”
Charles I of England (1600–1649) first seen 1638 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Earl of Traquair (1 October 1639), quoted in Alexander Peterkin, Records of the Kirk of Scotland, containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies, from the Year 1638 Downwards, as Authenticat…
“The preacher recommended peace and concord; dispositions necessary to a new born, weak, and persecuted sect; but this necessity ceased when this sect had attained strength enough to dictate the law.”
Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.”
Dorothy Day (1897–1980) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Month of the Dead," Catholic Worker (November 1959)
“To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.”
Queen Rania of Jordan (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you come, then, to rescue me?" He laughed and said, "from what, 'Colleen'?" You dried and dressed most willingly. You corseted, and caught the dread disease by which one comes to know such peace.”
Joanna Newsom (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is necessary for us as a nation not merely to be organized for war but to be organized for peace, not only to be an armed nation while other nations are armed but to have our industry, our productive capacity organized while other nations are organizing their industry and their productive capacity. (Cheers.)”
Arthur Balfour (1848–1930) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Hanley (4 January 1910), quoted in The Times (5 January 1910), p. 7
“I should fear that the new Poland would suffer from the diseases through which the old Poland perished; that it would be a theatre of perpetual intrigues between Germany and Russia; and that its existence, so far from promoting the cause of European peace, would be a perpetual occasion of European strife.”
Arthur Balfour (1848–1930) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memorandum, 'The Peace Settlement in Europe' (November 1916), quoted in Blanche E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., F.R.S., Etc. 1906–1930 (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1936), p. 325
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Paul of Tarsus (5–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.”
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 1960) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Note: Presidential press release after ETA's 2006 ceasefire declaration, September 2006.
“If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out. To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.”
Pauline Hanson (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.”
Ralph Bunche (1904–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, "reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations".”
Ralph Bunche (1904–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option. For peace cannot exist where justice is not served. I urge each and everyone of our colleagues to support this legislation.”
John Lewis (1940–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once have a priest for enemy, good bye To peace.”
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805–1848) said by 1848 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.”
Ambrose (339–397) said by 397 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have so much to live for, so much to hope for! Humanity is essentially good. We are all of one great family. We can give strength to the voice of hope. We can give thanks to those who work for peace. We can give added attention to those who feed the hungry and bind up the wounds of conflict. To the extent we cultivate this virtue of optimism, we will bless all the world's peoples.”
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.”
Philip Sidney (1554–1586) said by 1586 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source