Peace Quotes

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

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

Jimi Hendrix

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

E. H. Chapin

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

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

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

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

Scott Russell Sanders

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Seneca

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

I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

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

William F. Claire

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

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

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

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of wa.

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

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

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Aldous Huxley

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

Seneca

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

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

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

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

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Theresa

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Lord Essex

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos