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“We cannot be truly peaceful unless we have the invincible quality of peace within us; a feeble or temporary peacefulness could always be disturbed. If we try to be kind and peaceful in a naive way, encountering a different or unexpected situation might interfere with our awareness of peace because that peace has no strength in it, has no character. So peace must be stable, deeprooted, and solid.”
Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace is fragile. It can be extinguished like the flame of a candle. By blowing on it just once. So let us try to foster wherever we are a peace-enhancing, peace-protecting and peace-sustaining environment. Let us not allow evil to steal peace. And please help our country, because peace in Europe depends on the peace in Ukraine.”
Oleksandr Yazlovetskiy (born 1979) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ukraine. Msgr. Yazlovetskiy (Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv): “We have just one wish: peace” (21 December 2022) SIR Agency
“Peace is non-negotiable. We urge our local government not to become a political hostage to these oppressive policies. Christmas must inspire and encourage us to promote a peaceful city, a peaceful island and a peaceful country free from senseless attacks.”
Gerardo Alimane Alminaza (born 1959) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The need to shed light on the unpunished massacre in Panay: the request of civil society and religious organizations (16 January 2021) Fides News Agency
“All my life I have been a pacifist. All my life I have hated war and loved peace. I have contributed to peace societies, written for peace, spoken for peace, paraded for peace. But today I seriously question whether our ways of seeking peace are not playing directly into the hands of those who love war and intend to pursue it.”
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The speech from the throne speaks about maintaining peace - peace today, when Canadian nickel is being indirectly shipped to Ethiopia. Peace today, when Italian aeroplanes are being flown with British oil! Peace! Mr. Speaker, if this be peace it must be like the peace of the Lord - it passeth all understanding.”
Tommy Douglas (1904–1986) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maiden speech, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, February 11, 1936.
“There's this beautiful ocean of bliss and consciousness that is able to be reached by any human being by diving within, which is really peaceful and harmonious and can be enlivened by the group process. This group is a peace-creating group. It saturates the atmosphere. This is all about establishing peace. Right now, we gotta get peace back in the world. Peace is a real thing.”
David Lynch (1946–2025) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in David Lynch's $1B Peace Plan" in The New York Post (22 October 2003)
“All the pious high-school bullshit about the Century of Peace had been revealed for what it was: as artificial as a plastic nativity scene and as hollow as a split piñata. The world was peaceful the way a drunken coed passed out at a frat party was peaceful: it was the peace that facilitated the fucking.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we can't share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“China sticks to the path of peaceful development. Such a commitment is underpinned by China’s socialist system, the independent foreign policy of peace and the cultural tradition that values peace and harmony. China shall follow the path of peaceful development, which is a solemn commitment to the people of China and the world.”
Wei Fenghe (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religious life appears to be extremely peaceful; but peace does not hold much interest for young people. In fact, young people could not care less about a peaceful life; it is only people who are castrated who want peace. Healthy young people want a more vigorous life; they want a life in which they can stretch their arms, their legs, their desires as far as they will go.”
Kaneko Fumiko (1903–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don’t get me wrong. Imo is quite peaceful. I made that admonition against the backdrop of some skirmishes between some stakeholders in the state and some media aides of the governor over certain developments. Yes, the matter has already died down. Imo has been peaceful so, my concern was that nothing should be done to puncture that peaceful atmosphere.”
Ikedi Ohakim (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lately the theme has been "No Peace" and the slogans bombard you from every side. NO PEACE, NO BREAD! NO PEACE, NO SECURITY! and of course, NO PEACEKEEPERS, NO PEACE! NO CAPITOL, NO PEACE! Hanging behind the temporary stage in front of the Justice Building is a huge banner of President Snow's face with the words PANEM'S #1 PEACEKEEPER.”
Suzanne Collins (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wars have never made peace or preserved it or fostered its ideals. To have peace you must make peace with your enemy. To make peace only with your friends is to avoid the issue, and to permit a great principle to become absurd. Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.”
Wendell Berry (1934–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.”
Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ariel Sharon. "I an for lasting peace." at New York Post Forum, November 13, 2000, cited at Freeman.org, November 14, 2000.
“When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All my life, I've been a man of peace, working for peace, striving for peace, negotiating for peace. I've been a League of Nations man and a United Nations man and I'm still the same man with the same convictions, the same devotion to peace. I couldn't be other even if I wished. But I'm utterly convinced that the action we have taken is right.”
Anthony Eden (1897–1977) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC television broadcast (3 November 1956), quoted in Keith Kyle, Suez (2011), p. 425
“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.”
Bill Whittle (born 1959) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: HISTORY (29 March 2003)
“The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again. (Epilogue)”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shout peace from the mountains.. I preach peace in the caves Through peace we shall find equity & justice. I sing peace, blessed peace.”
Julie Gichuru (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is incumbent on all people of goodwill to build trust between the people of the two countries for their peaceful coexistence. We should learn from the 55 years of war not to return to it so hastily. The blood of those who fought for peace should not have been poured in vain. We call on all sides to exercise restraint and pursue peace at all costs. God is on the side of those who seek peace.”
Daniel Deng Bul Yak (born 1950) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Appeal from Archbishop of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (23 April 2012) Episcopal News Service
“We have to plan long term activity working for a future of peace: we cannot not form new generations for war, we must educate them to peace and reconciliation. Moreover education must be integral, involving every aspect of the human person so as to form new Colombians with a mentality of peace, justice, truth and peaceful co-existence.”
Luis Alberto Parra Mora (1944–2023) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Church deeply committed to education: instil a mentality of peace, justice and truth in the new generations. Colombia’s first virtual University has 2,000 students (7 July 2004) Fides News Agency
“Peace—real and enduring peace—must always be our supreme and ultimate aim, for with our swollen industrial population we are dependent on trade with a peaceful world and a world, moreover, that can honour its debts and trade obligations. Our true war aim is an assured system of international law and cooperation that will alone make a real peace possible.”
Arthur Bryant (1899–1985) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to The Times (7 October 1939), p. 4
“Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.”
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq" at History News Network (26 September 2002)
“As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.”
Konstantin Chernenko (1912–1985) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Struggle of the USSR for Peace and Security" - Page 6 - History - 1984
“When you do what the poor weary dove did — when you just betake yourself to the one only ark for safety, the infinite Love will put forth His hand, and draw you in! Into union with Christ! Into renewing grace and supporting strength! Into peace! Oh! wondrous peace; oh! sweet, satisfying peace; oh! peace of God that passeth understanding!”
Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Liberian women peace movement demonstrated to the world that grassroots movements are essential to sustaining peace; that women in leadership positions are effective brokers for peace; and the importance of culturally relevant social justice movements. Liberia's experience is a good example to the world that women—especially African women—can be drivers of peace”
Leymah Gbowee (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is God, our father dear, And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is Man, his child and care.For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.”
William Blake (1757–1827) said by 1827 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: "What kind of peace?”
Noam Chomsky (born 1928) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Peace did not serve order; order served peace, and when order became godlike, sacrosant and inviolate, then the peace thus won became a prison, and those who sought their freedom became enemies to order, and in the elimination of such enemies, peace was lost.'”
Steven Erikson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.”
Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: "Report: Sharon willing to make 'painful concessions," at cnn.com, April 2003 (online)
“It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Senate (22 January 1917)
“To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.”
Martin Buber (1878–1965) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Reply" (September 1945), as published in A Land of Two Peoples : Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs (1983) edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr, p. 178
“[P]eace of soul implies tranquillity of order, with material things ordered to the body, the body to the soul, the personality to neighbor and to God. Peace of mind is subjective tranquillity — a narrower thing. It requires great moral effort to attain peace of soul, but even those who are indifferent to right and wrong sometimes achieve peace of mind (which the Scriptures call "false peace").”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no greater need in the world, abroad and at home, than peace, peace from the warfare of arms and peace of spirit. Those are the things I intended to fight for during the time that I am Prime Minister, whether that time be long or short, and it is with that object—the object of peace above and before all things.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Philip Scott College (27 September 1923), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 157
“Peace we all desire. Peace can only come—peace, I mean, that is worth the name and that satisfies the definition of the word—peace will only come on terms that atonement is made for past wrongs, that the weak and downtrodden are restored, that the faith of treaties is observed, and that the sovereignty of public law is securely enthroned over the nations of the world.”
H. H. Asquith (1852–1928) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (19 December 1916)
“…Inner peace is important, but I have always felt that living a daily life with peace is the end. So in reality individual peace and global peace are not separate. They are one and the same.”
Ela Bhatt (1933–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle—a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life.”
Annie Besant (1847–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...”
Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To admit an absence of causality for the unbrotherly state leads not to peace and brotherhood but merely to playing at peace, to a comedy of reconciliation which creates a pseudo-peace, a false peace which is worse than open hostility because the latter poses a question whereas the former prolongs enmity by concealing it.”
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1828–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peace is the gift of God. Peace is realized through fraternal love. Peace is not something to enjoy alone but something to share. Peace of the Korean Peninsula becomes even more meaningful when we are able to contribute to the well-being and prosperity of our neighbor countries and countries around the world.”
Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (born 1943) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop charged with Pyongyang has never been there, prays daily Rosary for his northern flock (2 May 2018)
“Peace that is imposed is only war that is postponed, while peace that is agreed, peace that is reached through dialogue, is lasting peace.”
Fortunatus Nwachukwu (born 1960) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Priests are “first and foremost bridge builders”: Nigerian-born Permanent Observer to UN (18 March 2022)
“We pray and we hope peace will be restored. It is necessary to build peace: we ourselves here in Kyrgyzstan must begin to build peace. Our political leaders must give priority to dialogue and peace, essential for the common good. For our part, we will pray and ask for the assistance of the Holy Spirit for a future of reconciliation and wellbeing in the country.”
Nikolaus Messmer (1954–2016) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apostolic Administrator: “The Pope is close to Kyrgyzstan, Caritas is working to provide humanitarian aid ” (21 June 2010) Fides News Agency
“I'm glad that the African Union appointed African Youth Peace Ambassadors for the various regions in Africa. And we've been having consultations regarding a Continental Framework on Youth, Peace and Security. As I speak, Youth Peace Ambassadors are in Nigeria to consult on that framework and to assist in rolling out a national action plan on peace and security.”
Chido Cleopatra Mpemba (born 1988) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jobs and climate action are top priorities of young people in Africa Africa Renewal (26 July 2022)
“Peace never occurs in isolation. It is the fruition of a good life for all. For that reason, working for peace is considered to be a highly esteemed spiritual value. Peace is the greatest blessing of God to a people. Working for peace should be a central concern of the Church.”
Stephen Fumio Hamao (1930–2007) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: - H.Exc. Most Rev. Stephen Fumio HAMAO, Bishop of Yokohama (21 April 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
“As you know, peace is a sine qua non for everything and luckily we have had this peace cemented with the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the president. And for years we managed to put in place structures and laws to ensure that we will not derail from the peace. Once you have peace all other things are possible.”
Jewel Taylor (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are heavily engaged in community peace efforts, however, given peace is concentrated on political elites, we at John Garang Women Peace Institute do our best to research on women’s peace efforts at grassroots.”
Suzanne Jambo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learned long ago that, when anyone spoke of peace, be it man or machine, they meant war. Peace through war. Peace was the standard. It was the inert state of all things. You didn’t need to expend energy for peace. Only war.”
C. Robert Cargill (born 1975) first seen 1100 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 1100, “The Long Night In” (p. 99)
“The celebration of the International Day of Peace is an opportunity to recall the role of women and the heavy responsibility of rewriting the history of women’s engagement in the peace process in the DRC. Peace without women is an illusion, peace with women is a revolution.”
Nelly Mbangu (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source