Pierre Bayle Quotes

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

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

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Peace is security.

Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.

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

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

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Peace is important for Israel.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

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

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.