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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

Herbert Hoover

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Óscar Arias

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Holmes

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

A. J. Muste

Peace, for us, is an asset and in our interest. It is an absolute human asset that allows an individual to freely develop his individuality unbound by any regional, religious, or ethnic fetters.

Yasser Arafat

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Schell

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Georges Clemenceau

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Jenny Shipley

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

Baruch Spinoza

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Norman Finkelstein

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Kin Hubbard

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Karl Liebknecht

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

George W. Bush

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts.

Óscar Arias

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Mike Love

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

Baruch Spinoza

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Anwar Sadat

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.

Menachem Begin

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

Frank B. Kellogg

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Livy

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Friedrich Schiller

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

John F. Kennedy

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

People always make war when they say they love peace.

D. H. Lawrence

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Elihu Root

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Karl Liebknecht

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Making peace is harder than making war.

Adlai Stevenson I

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Martti Ahtisaari

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein