Famous Quotes

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."

Dorothy Thompson on Peace

More quotes about Peace

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

  Jimi Hendrix on Peace

• "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Peace

• "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

  Mother Teresa on Peace

• "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Peace

• "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

  John Lennon on Peace

More quotes by Dorothy Thompson

• "Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

• "The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."

• "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

• "Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

• "Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."