Top 100 Quotes About Want Peace
#1. The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#2. The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'
Jarreth J. Merz
#3. As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
George W. Bush
#4. We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Francis Spellman
#5. Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.
Nick Vujicic
#6. We all have different needs, thoughts, ideas, visions, languages, colors, and creeds, but we all want peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#9. I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
Paul McCartney
#10. If you want to be loved, LOVE. If you want to be understood, UNDERSTAND. If you want peace, MAKE PEACE. If you want light, LIGHT. If you want to be seen, SHINE. If you want to be heard, LISTEN.
Abhishek Kumar
#11. If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.
Chris Hani
#12. I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#13. Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#14. I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud
#15. You have to be willing to face evil and resist it if you want peace.
Anonymous
#16. Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.
J.B. Salsbury
#17. I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#18. The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#19. If you want peace, fill your mind with peaceful thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#22. The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace' ... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.
Ehud Barak
#23. People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia.
Akhmad Kadyrov
#24. The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
Najib Razak
#25. The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
James F. Byrnes
#26. Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#27. But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
Black Kettle
#28. The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
John Boehner
#29. I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
Mahmoud Abbas
#30. We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.
Jack Kemp
#31. I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#32. When the people decide they want peace more than security, they will find both.
Ron Atchison
#33. We human beings are committed to a way of life that leads to war and yet at the same time we want peace, we want freedom; but it is peace only as an idea, as an ideology; and at the same time everything we do conditions us.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#34. I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
John Lennon
#35. I'm tired, Aria. I want peace."
"You want peace now that you have everything.
Veronica Rossi
#36. I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.
Catherine The Great
#37. The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace.
Widad Akreyi
#38. Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
James Russell Lowell
#39. We want peace, but not at any price.
Ehud Barak
#40. The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.
Hugo Black
#41. We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
James H. Douglas Jr.
#42. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#43. After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace
Howard Metzenbaum
#44. Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.
Mao Zedong
#45. Encircled and provoked, Russia is once again turning into a mighty monolithic defense wall. Its people are ready! They want peace, above anything else. But if they'd have to fight for their own survival, and for the survival of the world, they will.
Andre Vltchek
#46. When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
Amos Oz
#48. People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
Hamid Karzai
#51. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Peter McWilliams
#52. I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
John Frederick Maurice
#53. Our stand is crystal-clear - we want peace in Ukraine, which can only be attained through broad national dialogue in which all regions and all political forces of the country must participate.
Sergei Lavrov
#54. We can want peace, but unless we are spiritually at peace ourselves, we dont mean it. It is our thoughts which keep that part of the universe where each of us stand out of or in balance.
Little Crow
#55. It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations - then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly.
Richelle Mead
#56. Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
James Clavell
#57. Homeschooling is more than Latin and Logic. It is a way of life. And that way of life includes having disciplined children, and encouraging loving relationships within the family. We want peace in our homes.
Laurie Bluedorn
#58. The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.
Donna Goddard
#59. But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.
Elle Macpherson
#60. We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.
Ger Duany
#61. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#62. You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.
Esther Veltheim
#63. Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war
Pope Francis
#64. This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.
Yitzhak Rabin
#65. If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your
hearts and minds.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#66. What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately.
Bret Easton Ellis
#67. Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
Mother Teresa
#68. Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
Pope Paul VI
#69. If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have faith enough to seek guidance and authority from within.
Iyanla Vanzant
#70. If you want peace, work for justice.
If you want justice, defend life.
If you want life, embrace truth.
Pope John Paul II
#71. If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.
Shannon L. Alder
#72. Love, joy and peace for the world, that's what I want ... peace for the world and love.
Michael Jackson
#73. If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.
Joseph Murphy
#74. One day the people of the world will want peace
so much that the governments will have to get out
of their way and give it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#75. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
Margaret Mitchell
#76. I want peace. Happiness. Not only for myself. For everybody.
Fela Kuti
#77. I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.
Ted Nugent
#78. People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Nelson Mandela
#79. And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.
Desmond Tutu
#80. The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#81. The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
Prem Rawat
#82. If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.
Paul Robeson
#83. If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.
Alan Cohen
#84. Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#85. I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Sarada Devi
#87. No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer's head. And then, if you want peace, you just have to pull it out and freeze it in print. Nothing less would do.
Jyoti Arora
#89. People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#90. Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.
M. Scott Peck
#91. These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.
Narendra Modi
#92. We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
Boris Yeltsin
#93. Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
Timothy Geithner
#94. If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#95. The future happiness of the human race depends on good people who want to live at peace with their neighbors, and who are willing to protect their neighbors from those who don't want peace.
Orson Scott Card
#96. Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.
Ram Dass
#98. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#99. Do you really think men and women thanked you for bringing them peace? They just became bored with your peace and so brewed their own trouble to fill the boredom. Men don't want peace, Arthur, they want distraction from tedium,
Bernard Cornwell
#100. If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.
John Lennon
