Peace Quotes

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.

Chinese Prove

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.

Paul Liu

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Julius K. Nyerere

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

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 enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

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

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Juvenal

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

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

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Lord William Beveridge

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann von Goethe

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

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

Jimi Hendrix

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Patanjali

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

Catherine de Hueck Doherty, O Magazine, October 2002

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

Nikita Khrushchev

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Mille

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .

Phylos the Tibetan

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

Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Larry Eisenberg