Peace Quotes
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
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.
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.William Blake
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
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.John Andrew Holmes
We will not have peace by afterthought.Norman Cousins
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.Bhagavad Gita
There is no way to peace peace is the way.A. J. Muste
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)
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.Alan John Percivale Taylo
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.Mother Theresa
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
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.Croesus of Lydia
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.Barry Goldwate
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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
The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles
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
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
I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.Juvenal
Find peace in where and what you are.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
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
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.Thomas Jefferson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.Peter Minard
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.I Ching
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
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.Pope John XXIII
