Quotes in Peace

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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