Promoting Peace Quotes:

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Make Peace Not War, Lack Of Understanding

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love Freedom, True Peace

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Running, Peace, Believe, Peace And Harmony, Peace Harmony

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, War, Mean, Maintaining Peace, Peacefulness

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Peace, War, Hype, Make Peace Not War, International Peace Day

Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Weapons, Development, Negotiation, Contribution To Society, Promoting

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

- Barack Obama

topic: Islam, Important, Problem, Extremism, Promoting

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

- Greg Walden

topic: Inspiration, Men, Catholic, John Paul, Promoting Peace

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

- Benazir Bhutto

topic: Military, Government, Asia, South Asia, Promoting Peace

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

- Heber J. Grant

topic: Music, Spiritual, Powerful, Promoting Peace

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

- Benazir Bhutto

topic: Fighting, Justice, Pakistan, Fighting Terrorism, Promoting Peace

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

- Elihu Root

topic: War, Lying, Men, Proceeding, Promoting Peace

We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.

- Timothy M. Dolan

source: "Statement From Archbishop Dolan on September 11th Protest". www.archny.org. September 10, 2010.

topic: September 11, Division, Protest, September 11th, Mutual Respect

Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Pain, Men, Joy, Helpfulness, Promoting Peace

The true object of religion is to bind mankind together, and to bind them all to God. If we see that in the name of religion, men, instead of promoting peace on earth and good-will among men, are trying to show their antagonism and animosity towards each other, then certainly we must stand forward with our voice of protest, and say that religion is defeating its own legitimate object.

- Keshub Chandra Sen

source: Speech delivered at Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, in a meeting held to constitute a Theistic Association in London, July 20, 1870.

topic: Men, Names, Voice, Promoting Peace, Animosity