We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

We make war that we may live in peace.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.