Peace Pilgrim Quotes

There are people who are very greedy, there are people who don't care. But in my opinion, that is a minority. The majority of the people on the face of this earth want peace, and if this is true, then peace on earth is a very achievable objective. People say it's not going to happen. Well, let this time belong to those who believe it can happen, not to the ones who say it cannot.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

We can change the world, but not improve it, if we do not have peace.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

The world will not find rest by just saying "peace.

We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.

Numerous technicians in every state are doing their utmost to achieve the dream of free, unlimited flight and it is precisely here where changes can be made which would have a radical effect on our whole way of life. The borders between countries would lose their significance, because they could not be closed off from each other. Linguistic differences would disappear, as human mobility increased. National defense would cease to devour the best resources of nations as it would become impossible in itself. And the necessity of resolving disagreements among nations in some other way than by bloody battles would, in its turn, lead us to eternal peace.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.

If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

There is no history of how bad became better.

I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

The real choice we have to make is between peace and nationalism.