Peace Quotes

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
Herodotus - in peace, children inter their parents war...
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
Alan john percivale taylo - there is nothing more agreeable in life than to...
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - So all is peace.
Edward Lea
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
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walke
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
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
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
This is the true nature of home - - It is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
John Ruskin
G. c. lichtenberg - he was then in his fifty - fourth year, when even...
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert Mitgang
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
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
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov, 1897
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of wa.
Hermocrates of Syracuse
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Woodrow Wilson
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitze
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
But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace.
Psalm 3711 TLB Bible
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.
Stephen Shobe
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co - Operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.
Thomason
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
I define joy as a sustained sense of well - Being and internal peace - A connection to what matters.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba