Peace Quotes

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

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.

Paul Liu

To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

David Dean Rusk

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

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

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

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455

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

Seneca

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

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

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.

Barry Goldwate

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace.

Psalm 3711 TLB Bible

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.

George Melton

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

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

Caitlin Matthews

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

Helen Kelle

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

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

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

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.

Cenotaph in Hiroshima

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette".

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitze

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

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000