Peace Quotes

Orson welles - in italy for thirty years under the borgias they...
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.
Unknown
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - - we can do it.
Roosevelt, Eleano
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.
Lester Bowles Pearson
Juvenal - one path alone leads to a life of peace: the path...
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
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von Clausewitz
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.
Julia Louise Woodruff
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.
Cenotaph in Hiroshima
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
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
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".
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
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
John Russell
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
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
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luthe
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.
Paul Liu
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - Peace is the measure.
George Melton
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
The Talmud
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
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
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
Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.
Jeff Melvoin
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
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. On importance of the MX missile.
Ronald Reagan
We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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