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Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

It is far easier to make war than peace.