Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

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.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where peace is valued, we must teach ourselves to believe that peace is not a ‘utopian vision’ but a real responsibility that must be worked for each and every day in small and large ways. Any one of us can contribute to building a world where peace and justice prevail.

Every day in the news we're hearing how rampant violence is in our communities, both here in America and around the world. I believe that the establishement of a United States Department of Peace can greatly help alleviate the many problems that we hear about on a daily basis. Our children deserve so much better. It is our job right here and now to build a better world. By establishing a US Department of Peace we are doing just that. Please get involved ... It's up to us to be the change that we wish for and the time is now to co-create it.

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

I want to be the peace president.

Peace is the language we must speak.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

Needed: A Department of Peace

I want to work for peace, not for war.

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.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

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

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

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 this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

To reach peace, teach peace.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.