Famous Quotes on Peace

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." --Mother Teresa

"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction .... The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." --Martin Luther King Jr.

"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nation as in the face of odds." --Mohandas Gandhi

"There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong." --Mohandas Gandhi

"The science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple. The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy." --Mohandas Gandhi

"After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace." --Kofi A. Annan

"Peace, in the sense of absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free." --The 14th Dalai Lama