PEACE QUOTES
'Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strengths, every dream, every high ideal.'
Yehudi Manuhin (1916-1999)
'Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice'. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
'If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.' Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)
'If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.' John Lennon (1940-1980)
'Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be acheived by understanding.'
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
'It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.'
Federico Mayor
'Time itself becomes subordinate to war. If only we could celebrate peace as our various ancestors celebrated war; if only we could glorify peace as those before us, thirsting for adventure, glorified war; if only our sages and scholars together could resolve to infuse peace with the same energy and inspiration that others have put into war.
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war?
Every nation has its prestigious military academies – or so few of them – that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?'
Elie Wiesel
