One word of peace can warm up three months of winter.
^{Japanese proverb}

Insisting on peace is the greatest combat.
^{Jean Jaurès}

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
^{Isaac Newton}

Searching for peace presupposes respect for otherness and variety.
^{The Dalaï Lama}

The biggest enemy of peace between men is selficheness.
^{Jean François Martmontel}

There's no way to peace. Peace itself is the way.
^{Acharya Shri Shrivatsa Goswami, spiritual leader of the Hindu Temple Sri Radharamana of Vrindavan}

Peace can never be achieved by violent means.
^{Acharya Shri Shrivatsa Goswami, spiritual leader of the Hindu Temple Sri Radharamana of Vrindavan}

It's not enough to talk about peace. You must believe in it. And it's not enough to believe in it. You must build it.
^{Eleanor Roosevelt}

Peace founded cities; peace fertilised barren lands; Under the yoke of peace, the yoke the oxen lowed; peace in the fields made the flocks gambol [...].
^Ronsard

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for the both parties nopbly are subdued, and neigher party loses.
^{William Shakespeare}

A single word of peace is worth more than a thousand words.
^Bouddha

I do not want to condemn either my doors or my Windows. I want sculptures from all over the world to be able to move freely around my house.
^{Mahatma Gandhi}

You'll see: one day, they'll declare peace on us and we won't be prepared.
^{Tristan Bernard}

No reasonable man can prefer war to peace, for in peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
^Hérodote

Given the terrifying prospects that lia ahead for humanity, we see even more clearly that peace is the only battle that is worthe fighting.
^{Albert Camus}

Eye for eye and the world will become blind.
^Gandhi

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!
^{Esaïe 52:7}

Only war profits to war.
^{Louis Aragon}

It seems that only exhaustion can force princes to make peace. They always realise too late that the blood of citizens has become mingled with that of the enemy.
^{Denis Diderot}

When peace has been made, we must keep it out of self-interest.
^Cromwell

Moral-practical reason pronounces within us the following irresistible veto: there shall be no war, either between individual human beings in the state of nature, or between separate states.
^{Emmanuel Kant}

If a man as done all his duty but has made no contribution to peace, il tis as though he had done nothing at all.
^{The Talmud}

The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
^{St James}

Is not war the source and the theatre of all great deeds? Yet what could be more insane than becoming involved in such a struggle over I know not what, when much more harm than good is done to both sides?
^Erasmus

There are only two powers in the world: the sabre and the mind. Il the long term, the sabre is always defeated by the mind.
^{Napoléon Bonaparte}

War is not an illness... It is an intolerable evil because it is inflicted upon men by men.
^{Jean-Paul Sartre}

If ever there was a war that was obviously unjust, it is the war you are proposing: going and killing your neighbour (who jas not attacked you) for fear that he will be a position to attack you. In other words, you run the risk or ruining your country in the hope of ruining that of another man for no reason, that is certainly neither honest nor useful, an you know if full well.
^Voltaire

Why does man hunt down his neighbour? I really am very tired of your horrible wars. Your very prayers and vows are infamies! The danger to you lies in your contrary humours, and your strength lies in union. So live as brothers and try to go on living in peace.
^{Charles Baudelaire}

The natural effect of trade is to bring peace. When two nations negotiate, they come to depend on one another: if it is the interest of one to buy, it is the interest of the other to selle, and all unions are bases upon mutual needs.
^Montesquieu

Préparations for war, which the falsest of adages recommends as a way of making peace, create, on the contrary, first the belief, on both sides, that the other side wants conflict and, when it has taken place, the other belief, on both sides, that it was the orher's side fault.
^{Marcel Proust}

Without progress there is no peace. Without peace there is no progress.
^{Kofi Annan}

There's no greater happiness than the arrival of a guest in peace and friendship.
^{African Proverb}

Happiness and peace: it's a question of silence.
^{Jean-Louis Gagnon: Death of a Black}

Silence is the road to peace.
^{Maurice Robert Lalonde: Somewhere else is in this world}

The tree of silence gives the fruit of peace.
^{Arab Proverb}

Being at peace with oneself is the means of becoming at peace with others.
^{Luis de Leon: The Names of Christ}

We plant the seeds of peace now and for the future.
^{Wangari Maahai}

Tolerance is a virtue which makes peace possible.
^{Kofi Annan}

Why do you travel? To find those who still know how to live in peace.
^{Ella Maillart}

You want peace: create love.
^{Victor Hugo: Seen Things}

The man whose soul is at peace disturbs neither himself nor others.
^Epicurus

Peace is a continuous creation.
^{Raymond Poincaré}

Little things seem like nothing but they bring peace.
^{George Bernanos: Diary of a Country Priest}

Selfishness and hate alone have a country: brotherhood doesn't.
^{Alphonse de Lamartine: The Marseillaise of Peace}

War is war between men; peace is the war of ideas.
^{Victor Hugo: Fragments}

Happiness is not the fruit of peace, it's peace itself.
^{Alain: On Happiness (1928)}

To make peace there must be two of you: you and the neighbour opposite.
^{Aristide Briand: Words  for Peace}

Who lives in peace with himself lives in peace with the universe.
^{Marcus Aurelius}

It's good to bring peace and always to soften things.
^{Molière: The Sicilian}

Peace is rarely refused to the peaceful.
^{Schiller: WilliamTell}

Don't try to settle things by a war or a trial when you can settle things peacefully.
^{Jules Maarin}

Love must be eternally peaceful.
^{Zoé Valdès: The Underdevelopped}

Joy, like peace, is measured in small quantities.
^{Benjamen Péret}

Peace is, more and more, seen as the only road to justice.
^{John Paul II}

Peace has no frontiers.
^{Itshak Rabin}

We don't want riches. We want peace and love.
^{Inidan Wisdopm}

Equality is the keystone of non-violent independence.
^Gandhi

There's a close link between having nothing and stealing nothing.
^Gandhi

The highest moral rule is that we must work for the good of humanity without stopping.
^Gandhi

The enemy is stupid! He thinks we are the enemy when in fact, it's him!
^{Pierre Desproges}