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“Maitreya’s Sword of Cleavage forces humanity to make a choice: to share or die. He states it clearly: “Men must share or die. There is no other course.” When it dawns on us that we share or we die, of course we will accept to share and that will create the conditions in which all can live in peace.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The new energy affects everyone — Everyone is being affected by the new energy pouring into the world. Those who believed in political, religious and philosophical systems have become disillusioned because they have failed to bring peace, prosperity and happiness. You can only solve the problems of the world with a sense of realism that is not clouded by ideology or market forces.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through sharing alone will justice be confirmed. Sharing alone will bring the peace desired by all the nations. When men share and destroy the walls of separation they will know at last the truth of their existence and flood the world with brotherhood and love.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not a warmonger. And I’m not a pacifist either. But I like peace.”
Joseph Kabila (born 1971) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "For Congo’s Leader, Middling Reviews" (4 April 2009), by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times
“Some of us dare to believe that He is about to show His face to the whole world, and that again it is to be an occurrence to usher in joy, hope and peace. Even away back in the New Testament we have assurances to this effect...”
Howard Ray Carey wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Narrated Abdullah bin Abi Aufa: Allah’s Messenger (May Peace Be Upon Him) said, ‘Know that Paradise is under the shade of swords’.”
M. J. Akbar (born 1951) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the Book of Jihad in Sahih al Bukhari, quoted in ** Akbar, M. J - The shade of swords_ Jihad and the conflict between Islam and christianity-Routledge (2008)
“I have reiterated the four points time and again and very clearly: Defend the Republic of China; reject "one country, two systems"; love freedom and democracy; stand with peace and prosperity.”
Han Kuo-yu (born 1957) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Han Kuo-yu (2019) cited in "INTERVIEW: Han Kuo-yu urges accountability in politics" on Taipei Times, 22 July 2019.
“Current relations between Russia and the US struggle through the worst times. Historians, politicians, political scientists cannot recall any other time, when our relations were in such a miserable state. Other countries, international peace and security suffer because of this...”
Anatoly Antonov (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Venezuela is a country which advocates for and is committed to the construction of a pluripolar and multicentric world, where all the different regions (Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, and North America) can live together in balance and peace, respecting our cultures, religions, idiosyncrasies, identities and economic and political models.”
Nicolás Maduro (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So #Boeing must be raising their champagne glasses to toast their man, Pat Shanahan, as interim Sec. of Defense. 3 decades w Boeing, now @DepSecDef is Boeing’s biggest customer. A coup for Boeing, a loss for taxpayers and democracy and peace. #divestfromwar”
Medea Benjamin (born 1952) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter Post (26 Dec 2018)
“Curious that allegations re Russia giving Taliban $ to kill US soldiers comes just in time to sabotage talks re the last nuclear treaty between the US and Russia, the withdrawal of more US troops from Afghanistan and peace in Syria. Sounds like fake news to me...”
Medea Benjamin (born 1952) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (28 June 2020)
“If anything represents a threat to peace and security, it is the shameless and aggressive actions of the United States and their allies to oust a legitimately elected president of Venezuela (Nicolas Maduro).”
Vasily Nebenzya (born 1962) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in US attempting to engineer coup d’etat in Venezuela: Russia, PressTV (26 January 2019)
“In communist terminology “world peace” simply means an absence of resistance to world Marxist-Leninist domination. What would the CPUSA do if the United States got into a full-scale military confrontation with China?”
Trevor Loudon wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of course I cannot work as I did. Still, there has never been a day, I suppose, when I have failed to give thought to the work for peace and for Hellenism. The one is a matter of life and death for all of us; the other of maintaining amid all the dust of modern industrial life our love and appreciation of eternal values.”
Gilbert Murray (1866–1957) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 90th birthday broadcast, 'Unfinished Battle' (c. 2 January 1956), quoted in Duncan Wilson, Gilbert Murray OM (1987), p. 399
“our values are, first and foremost, peace. The values that we have to express are ending the disparities, the glaring disparities based on race and class that exist in our country.”
Cynthia McKinney (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the Green Party has four pillars on which all of its policy recommendations lie. And that is, they are social justice, ecological wisdom, peace and grassroots democracy. So that means that our foreign policy, our domestic policy, our public policy, in general, would focus on the well-being of the people, on the well-being of this planet.”
Cynthia McKinney (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Probably one of the most completely misunderstood of all modern institutions is militarism. While military organizations take their origin in man's lust for war, militarism is something more than a mere war machine. By militarism I mean that institution in which the nation maintains large national armies and navies in time of peace, usually raised on the principle of conscription.”
John Thomas Flynn (1882–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the first facts we must face when we discuss the United Nations is that its members are in no sense united. The United Nations is not an instrument for preserving the peace of the world. It is an instrument for protecting a few powerful nations, chiefly Russia and Great Britain, in a dangerous racket that has led to almost all the wars in the last 150 years.”
John Thomas Flynn (1882–1964) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Two Rackets of the UN,” The Freeman (March 1955)
“England has not always been a land of liberty. Everyone has heard of the cruel and barbarous persecutions Protestants had to endure under the reigns of Henry VIII and of his daughter Mary. At the present time people have become more humane, and everyone may enjoy peace and tranquillity, maintained by just and wise laws.”
César-François de Saussure (1705–1783) first seen 1729 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter XIV, London, 29 April 1729, pp. 317–318
“We will and concede for us and all our heirs and successors, by the common counsel, assent and consent of the prelates, magnates, earls and barons and communities of our realm in our parliament that the Kingdom of Scotland, shall remain for ever separate in all respects from the Kingdom of England, in its entirety, free and in peace, without any kind of subjection, servitude, claim or demand.”
Edward III of England (1312–1377) first seen 1328 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters-patent (1 March 1328), quoted in G. W. S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), pp. 333–334
“...we benignly wish that all and each of the natives of the kingdom who will subject themselves willingly to us, as the true King of France according to wise counsel, before next Easter, offering due fidelity etc. to us, as King of France, performing their duties...should be admitted to our peace and grace and to our special protection and defence.”
Edward III of England (1312–1377) first seen 1327 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Assuming the title King of France (8 February 1340), quoted in A. R. Myers (ed.), English Historical Documents, 1327–1485 (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969), p. 65
“I’m living for my peace and my joy,”
Viola Davis (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can begin anywhere—everywhere. "Let there be peace," says a bumper sticker, "and let it begin with me." Let there be health, learning, relationship, right uses of power, meaningful work.... Let there be transformation, and let it begin with me.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you kill one person, you're prosecuted. If you kill ten people, you're famous; if you kill a quarter-of-a-million people, you're invited to a peace conference.”
Haris Silajdžić (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The means of resistance are very important. Our message that armed groups, militarism and war do not solve our problems but aggravate them challenges us to use new ways and that is why we need to teach the science of peace at every level of society.”
Mairead Maguire (born 1944) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex, Common Dreams, (14 October 2014)
“In my opinion, an encyclical on nonviolence and disarmament from Pope Francis would give hope to us all and encourage us all to take up our responsibility to build a new culture of peace and nonviolence, not only in the Church and in Ireland, but throughout the whole world.”
Mairead Maguire (born 1944) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why the Catholic Church Should Abolish the Anti-Christian "Just War" Theory, Following Pope Francis' visit to Ireland, a reflection on abuse, violence, war, and peacemaking, Common Dreams (6 September 2018)
“If I ever say something that contradicts the book of Allah and the Prophet(Peace be upon him) then leave my statement.”
Abu Hanifa (699–767) said by 767 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a huge honour to take up the role as Chair of The Elders at such a critical moment for peace, justice and human rights worldwide. Building on the powerful legacies of Archbishop Tutu and Kofi Annan, I am confident that our group’s voice can both be heard by leaders and amplify grassroots activists fighting for their rights.”
Mary Robinson (born 1944) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mary Robinson appointed new Chair of The Elders, (1 November 2018)
“Today the Committee will consider the WikiLeaks matter. The case is complicated, obviously. It involves possible questions of national security, and no doubt important subjects of international relations, and war and peace. But fundamentally, the Brennan observation should be instructive.”
John Conyers (1929–2019) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: U.S. Congress House Hearing: Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issue Raised by Wikileaks. Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Sessio…
“Nothing should put peace at risk”
Michel Barnier (born 1951) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EU's Barnier will 'work to avoid' Brexit hard border BBC News (11 May 2017)
“The peace of the world is a matter that concerns not only the rich and powerful nations, some of whom produce, purchase and deploy sophisticated weapons of mass destruction, but more profoundly, the poor, weak and small nations, who are the victims of the squander and waste that are characteristic of militarism.”
Maurice Bishop (1944–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We hate war, and our National Directorate has repeated this many times. We haven't organized the defense of our revolution for the purpose of conquering neighboring territories - or distant ones for that matter. We have done it in order to win peace. Our friends and neighbors can rest assured that this revolution was made in order to defend the land of our birth.”
Tomás Borge (1930–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“… many Western people today find themselves imbibing the idea that 'primitive' societies had some special state of grace which we lack today – as though in a simpler time there would have been more female dominance, more peace and less homophobia, racism and transphobia. There are an awful lot of unsupported assumptions among these beliefs.”
Douglas Murray (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The European question is: ‘Can Europe, in its political and economic fragmentation, preserve its peace and independence in the face of the growing non-European world powers – or is it forced, in order to save its existence, to organize itself into a federation of states?’.”
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Pan-Europa, Pan-Europa Verlag, Wien-Leipzig, 1924, page IX.
“I wonder sometimes when I look into the faces of some of these overworked people, if there is a sort of a sleeping potion taken just prior to going to Church, so they can rest in peace and not feel disturbed, but relax and forget they are alive.”
J. Golden Kimball (1853–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In order to have peace it will be necessary for Germany to respect her Constitution in every way. Non-observance of the Constitution amounts, after all, to anarchy. The allegiance sworn by the individual citizen is valid only if the leaders also act in accordance with their obligations.”
Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is sick is Tory politicians returning from sunny climes in Bermuda shorts seeking then to take the credit for the restoration of peace to our streets when they had bugger all to do with it.”
Jack Dromey (1948–2022) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said after the 2011 London riots and in response to the Conservative rhetoric that society was 'sick' during the party conference season. Quoted by the Telegraph. Labour Party Conference 2011: best quotes
“For the man who writes alone for his friends, and not for his enemies as well, falls short of being a true philosopher, by reason of the fact that all real philosophy has missed its goal unless it brings us Peace.”
Cyril Scott (1879–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have the impression that the Government, as always, hoping for peace does not desire to necessary make the sacrifice (the purchase of trucks) and consequently we shall waste the new victory obtained as we have partly wasted the previous one (Campo Via).”
José Félix Estigarribia (1888–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human nature is defective. It is selfish. It is cruel and revengeful. It is a product of militancy and hate. It is much better adapted to a fighting life, in which it was generated, than it is in cooperation and peace.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Human Nature is Defective", speech to the Young People's Socialist League, The Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 1910
“Look upon and treat others as you do your own hands, your own eyes, your very heart and soul—with infinite care and compassion—as suffering and enjoying members of the same Great Being with yourself. This is the spirit of the ideal universe—the spirit of your own being. It is this alone that can redeem this world, and give to it the peace and harmony for which it longs.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The horse, the mule, the camel, and the ox have pretty nearly made man what he is. They have contributed to human welfare and achievement to an extent that can never be estimated. They are the bone and sinew of civilization—the plodding, faithful, indispensable allies of man in almost everything he undertakes, whether of war or peace, pomp or pleasure.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ethics is the most vital and important of all sciences. It has both its theoretical and applied aspects. Its mission is nothing less than the establishment of harmony among the inhabitants of the earth and the transformation of world-wide contention into peace and happiness.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We sincerely welcome more foreign experts to China to spark innovation and pursue successful careers. And we welcome the talents from all over the world to be part of our modernization drive, and make even greater contribution to building a community with a shared future for mankind, to world peace and development, and to human progress.”
Han Zheng (born 1954) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Han Zheng (2019) cited in "China warns Taiwan of continued lockout from WHO assembly" on CCTV English, 28 September 2019.
“EU membership brings economic security, peace and stability”
Liz Truss (born 1975) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EU referendum: Government to spend £9m on leaflets to every home", BBC News (7 April 2016).
“Aggressive. Nationalistic. Anti-Nato. Anti-EU. It is the post-war internationalist consensus unravelling in real time. Winston Churchill's vision for a world that achieves peace through trade, common values and shared endeavour evaporating before our eyes.”
Tim Farron (born 1970) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farron likens PM's politics to Trump's and Putin's BBC News (19 March 2017)
“It's about time we started honouring those people involved in the armed struggle. It was the bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table. The peace we have now is due to the action of the IRA.”
John McDonnell (born 1951) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments at a commemoration of the IRA hunger striker, cited in "MP's 'brave IRA' comments spark outrage" The Guardian (30 May 2003).
“Let the hearts of the women of the world respond to the song of the herald angels of peace on earth and good will to men. Let them throb as one heart unified by the grand and holy purpose of uplifting the human race, and humanity will breathe freer, and the world grow brighter. With such a purpose Eden would spring up in our path, and Paradise be around our way.”
Frances Harper (1825–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Taiwan will not be a trouble-maker, but instead will play a role in facilitating peace and reducing risks in the region.”
Hou Yu-ih (born 1957) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hou Yu-ih (2023) cited in "US support to Taiwan not for granted: Hou" on Taipei Times, 17 September 2023.
“We do not need more fighter jets flying across the Taiwan Strait. Instead, we need more passenger jets and good timing to create peace.”
Hou Yu-ih (born 1957) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hou Yu-ih (2023) cited in "Group tour ban to China is bad policy: Hou You-yi" on Taipei Times, 31 October 2023.