Peace Quotes

The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans.

Edward Teller

Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Yasser Arafat

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

Mahatma Gandhi

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one’s partner.

Nelson Mandela

Who will then worry his head as to whether we have lived in peace or anger, who then will know about your scientific disputes and of your sacrifice of health and peace of mind for science?

Friedrich Wöhler

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Muhammad Ali

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Theodore Roosevelt

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt