* ...if our humanity – our soul as a society – is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace. ~ Robert Redford

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
-- Hyman G. Rickover

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.
-- John Robbins (b. 1914-)

"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty." -- Oscar Romero

* "It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it." -- Eleanor Roosevelt We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

* "Peace, like charity, begins at home." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt * More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

* What shall we choose? Violence or non violence? …We have to choose knowing that when we are violent to our enemies, we do violence to ourselves. When we brutalize others, we brutalize ourselves. And eventually we run the risk of becoming our oppressors. -- Arundhati Roy

It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together. -- Carl Sagan

* The most valuable possesion you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. -- Carlos Santana

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

 

* In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens-- when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing. -- Albert Schweitzer

Nonviolence, pacifism, that's the greatest thing that I think the human species has to aspire to, because otherwise it's not going to be around.
-- Martin Scorsese

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
-- Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)