Top 70 Peace Movement Quotes
#1. Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke.
Lorrie Moore
#2. The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
Betty Williams
#3. I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
E.P. Thompson
#4. I was never a member of the peace movement or a pacifist, nor was I ever carried away from a demonstration outside a military barracks. Perhaps that's why I don't feel the need to compensate for anything.
Guido Westerwelle
#5. Any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#6. The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
John McCarthy
#7. The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.
Ellen Key
#8. I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations, did a lot to influence the politics that I have.
Bernie Sanders
#9. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
Jon Voight
#10. Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?
Edward Said
#11. When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.
Grace Paley
#12. The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
Noam Chomsky
#13. I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
Margot Kidder
#14. I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
Ed O'Neill
#15. By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
Martha Gellhorn
#16. I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
Paul Robeson
#17. Peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#18. It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war.
Arundhati Roy
#19. When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
Janeane Garofalo
#20. The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
David Amram
#21. Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
Nhat Hanh
#22. We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#23. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.
Richard Bachman
#24. Consuming what is natural, good and untainted frees you, protects you, and realigns you with what is natural, peaceful and safe.
Bryant McGill
#25. 'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.
Cindy Sheehan
#26. He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?
David Holdsworth
#27. The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.
Tom Hayden
#28. Never forget where you've been & why you started your movement. Reflect, Focus, Persevere. Don't give up & keep moving forward on the roads of your life.
Timothy Pina
#29. HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS) ... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.
Afrika Bambaataa
#30. God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much love, life, beauty and peace. Enjoy your stay with the fellow beings.
Amit Ray
#32. We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
David Steindl-Rast
#33. Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.
Auliq Ice
#34. In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.
Menachem Begin
#35. The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.
Mary Ritter Beard
#36. Peace originates with the flow of things - its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.
Morihei Ueshiba
#37. We learned that we could move others to take action ... Even though we couldn't stop the war, I discovered that I could be involved in the movement for peace and justice. From that day on I knew that I was going to be committed to working for change ...
Marla Ruzicka
#38. I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
Jackson Browne
#39. Stay strong. Don't worry about things you cannot change and don't worry about things changing that you cannot stop.
Peace Gypsy
#40. Defend the truth with all you might so that the people of the future do not learn a lie.
Auliq Ice
#41. It was loneliness and insecurity that had brought Claudia to the chaos of madness. It was community, love, and friendship that finally brought her inner peace. This movement from chaos to inner peace, from self - hate to self - trust, began when Claudia realized that she was loved.
Jean Vanier
#42. As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
James T. Walsh
#43. I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president - which means, in our time, a dangerous president - unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.
Howard Zinn
#44. I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
Anais Nin
#45. The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening. Gratitude is peace.
Anne Lamott
#46. Peace is the ultimate weapon of mankind to save the future generations from extinction!
Avijeet Das
#48. On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
Fredrik Bajer
#49. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#51. I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.
John Lennon
#52. Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#53. Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music
Amit Ray
#54. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams
#55. One is good but ten is better. together is a powerful, beautiful, and peaceful.
B. Armynanta
#56. Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human.
Janelle Gray
#57. I am not too happy with terms like "the left", to be honest. And I don't use it much ... .if by "the left" you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can't be elements of the left opposed to workers' movement, at least under that definition.
Noam Chomsky
#58. Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.
Peter Julian Eymard
#60. Every day, I take steps to resolve all my karmic ties, live with intention, smile and laugh often, express my love, and act on what brings me fulfillment. Why wait until we have one foot in the grave to suddenly become spiritual, forgiving, and at peace with the world?
Alaric Hutchinson
#61. Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.
Amit Ray
#63. Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.
Auliq Ice
#65. Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they thought would be your disadvantage, you turn it into your advantage.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#66. Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.
George Santayana
#67. September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror's sting,
rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles' wings.
from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
Aberjhani
#68. Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.
Raheel Farooq
#69. In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
Aberjhani
#70. The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.
Carl Von Ossietzky
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