Michael Palin Quotes

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

I hope peace is a part of everyday life.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

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

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

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

We believe world peace is inevitable.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Let us have peace.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.

We're all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all just get along.

We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.