Peace Quotes

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

Samuel Adams

There is no way to peace peace is the way.

A. J. Muste

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Albert Einstein

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Kelle

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

D. H. Lawrence

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...

Samuel Adams

I define joy as a sustained sense of well - Being and internal peace - A connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Woodrow Wilson

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

William F. Claire

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.

Unknown, UNESCO Constitution

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Jesse Louis Jackson

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Sir James Glove

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations... is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carte

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo