Creating Peace Quotes:

Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.

- Hafsat Abiola

source: "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book edited by Michael Collopy and Jason Gardner, 2000.

topic: Peace, Creating, Space, Peacekeeping, Peace Is Every Step

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny, Peace, Military, Solved Problems, Theoretical

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

- Dorothy Thompson

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Ubuntu, Passivity Is, Peace Justice

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

source: Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.11, Tharpa Publications UK

topic: Peace, Gun, Helping Others, Peace Within, Peacekeeping

As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Peace, Creating, Keys, Creating Peace

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

- Goldie

topic: Creating, Passionate, Classroom, Creating Peace

An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.

- Michael Strong

topic: Business, Passion, Creating, Creating Peace, Biggest Obstacles