Shimon Peres Quotes

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Our aim is a democratic peace.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.

It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

You don't fight for peace. You Peace for Peace.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

Peace is the language we must speak.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.