“Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.”
— Barbara Boxer
“Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.”
— Paul Kagame
“The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke – albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.”
— P. J. O’Rourke
“If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.”
— Wayne Dyer
“My primary passion is film-making. That’s the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else – from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show – is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.”
— Karan Johar
“We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.”
— Ariel Sharon
“More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I share the love and peace.”
— Yayoi Kusama
“I just want to live in peace and quiet.”
— Agnetha Faltskog
“Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there’s been a liberating force that’s come from it.”
— Alanis Morissette
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
— Peace Pilgrim
“May the soul of the late President Milton Obote… a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.”
— Yoweri Museveni
“Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.”
— Chiang Kai-shek
“We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura.”
— Menachem Begin
“Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.”
— John Lewis
“American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.”
— Dennis Prager
“I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.”
— Colm Toibin
“This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.”
— Mark Kennedy
“Just as God’s love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manifestations of that love; and as his peace with us is the same, however much our peace may be disturbed; so it is also with regard to our being in fellowship or partnership with him: it remains unalterably the same so far as God is concerned.”
— George Muller
“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
“I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
“While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman’s gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can’t distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.”
— Mariella Frostrup
“I think people used to read ‘War and Peace,’ and now they don’t; now they sit around with their tablets and watch ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Breaking Bad’ or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.”
— Noah Hawley
“Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.”
— Jean-Michel Jarre
“The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson’s on the main drag into maturity.”
— Paul Theroux
“‘Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!”
— Harriet Tubman
“The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.”
— Tony Snow
“The wars don’t end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I’m gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.”
— Tim O’Brien
“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn’t the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.”
— Robert Johnson
“You don’t kill your way to peace.”
— Imran Khan
“I challenged God. I said, ‘God, I know that I’m a sinner. I know that I won’t probably have peace until You’re in my heart. But I will not let You in my heart until You answer me, why? Why did you take my arms and legs? Why didn’t You give me what everybody else has? God, until You answer me that question, I will not serve You.’”
— Nick Vujicic