International Day of Peace is observed every September 21 around the world. The United Nations General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. This year the theme is “The Sustainable Development Goals: Building Blocks for Peace.” The 17 Sustainable Development Goals were unanimously adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations at an historic summit of the world’s leaders in New York in September 2015. The new ambitious 2030 agenda calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve these goals over the next 15 years. It aims to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.
The Sustainable Development Goals are integral to achieving peace in our time, as development and peace are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. “The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “They are a to-do list for people and planet, and a blueprint for success.”
Every single one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is a building block in the global architecture of peace. It is critical that we mobilize means of implementation, including financial resources, technology development and transfer, and capacity-building, as well as the role of partnerships. Everyone has a stake and everyone has a contribution to make.
Here are 25 quotes about peace that will make you be a better person and inspire you to contribute in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another." - Winston Churchill
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures." - John F. Kennedy
"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." - Nelson Mandela
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
"There is a higher court than courts of justice, and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace." - Buddha
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." - Mother Teresa
"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa
"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." - William Ewart Gladstone
"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
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” - John Lennon
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliché that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.” - John Lennon
"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." - Desmond Tutu
"Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism." - Benazir Bhutto
"Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Soldiers usually win battles and generals get the credit for them. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots." - Napoleon Bonapart e
"It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." - Ronald Reagan
"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time." - Lyndon B. Johnson
"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves." - William Hazlitt
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” - Virginia Woolf
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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