Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it. — Dag Hammarskjold
Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world. — Michael McCaul
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged. — George Clooney
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping. — Harri Holkeri
I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out. — Michel Martelly
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure. — Anna Lindh
The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability. — Anna Lindh
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid. — Samantha Power
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded. — Ban Ki-moon
Short Peacekeeping Quotes
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. — Mother Teresa
Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it. — Brian Tracy
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. — Dalai Lama
Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make — Robert Fulghum
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way. — Nhat Hanh
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it — Mahatma Gandhi
The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. — Dag Hammarskjold
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function. — George H. W. Bush
I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home. — Dennis Kucinich
Peacekeeping Image Quotes
United Nations Peacekeeping Quotes
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. — Cliff Stearns
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! — Babatunde Osotimehin
A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability. — Richard Holbrooke
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. — Alex J. Morrison
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. — Richard Holbrooke
Peacekeeping Quotes
Through your support of UN peacekeeping, you can help to make this tantalizing word-"peace"-a reality for all the world's citizens. Together, we can spread the message that UN peacekeeping is essential. Without it, the world would be a much less stable, and more violent, place. — Tim Wirth
Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin. — Ban Ki-moon
We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
So I've gone in and out of the UN, working on counter-terrorism, on UN reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well. — Edward Luck
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
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. — Xunzi
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. — Wayne Dyer
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
Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security. — Jean-Marie Guehenno
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself. — Dale Carnegie
United Nations Peace Quotes
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood. — Coretta Scott King
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. — Pauline Hanson
Here in the United States our Muslim citizens are making many contributions in business, science and law, medicine and education, and in other fields...[they are]upholding our nation's ideals of liberty and justice in a world at peace. — George W. Bush
The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world. — Enos Mills
The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world. — Ralph Bunche
Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace. — Country Joe McDonald
The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line. — Javier Perez De Cuellar
The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world. — Trygve Lie
Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential. — Susan Rice
Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ? — Jean Sasson
I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality. — Vladimir Putin
When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix. — Jean-Marie Guehenno
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away. — John Lennon
Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very hesitant about putting their men and women in harm's way. It is extremely difficult to get the troops if you do not have the consent of the country where you are deploying. — Kofi Annan
It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping". — Assata Shakur
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts. — Jonathan Schell
We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers. — George W. Bush
Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse. — Payam Akhavan
Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps. — Kofi Annan
When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers. — Kofi Annan
I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done. — Kofi Annan
Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment. — George W. Bush
We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it. — Romeo LeBlanc
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war. — Mel Duncan
There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable. — Kofi Annan
The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul. — Khaled Hosseini
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