3 December 2020 Paul Robeson As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
3 December 2020 Frederick Buechner Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
3 December 2020 Ariel Sharon I am 73 years old. I’ve seen everything. I’ve met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I’ve been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.
3 December 2020 Ben Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
3 December 2020 Milan Kundera To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.
3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
3 December 2020 Sun Myung Moon I created the Women’s Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don’t need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
3 December 2020 Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Shapiro It’s to be a person who’s able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
3 December 2020 Greta Garbo Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you’re just fair game.
3 December 2020 Nastassja Kinski Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
3 December 2020 Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
3 December 2020 Mitch Albom We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.
3 December 2020 M. Scott Peck There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
3 December 2020 John Andrew Holmes Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
3 December 2020 Kent Nerburn Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
3 December 2020 Elihu Root It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
3 December 2020 Mary Wortley Montagu While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
