"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace." - Reinhold NiebuhrTweet
"When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books." - Paul TherouxTweet
"You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'" - Benjamin NetanyahuTweet
"We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace." - Dave MatthewsTweet
"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed." - Mahatma GandhiTweet
"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene." - Lucius Annaeus SenecaTweet
"Peace is produced by war." - Pierre CorneilleTweet
"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear." - Samuel SmilesTweet
"Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another." - Yahya JammehTweet
"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding." - John LennonTweet