Peace Quotes
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
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".
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
And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.Bible
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.Abraham Lincoln
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
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.Benjamin Franklin
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 insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.Barry Goldwate
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.Brian Wilson
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
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.Helen Kelle
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
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
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
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
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here On Middle East peace initiative.Shimon Peres
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.Lord Essex
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.Napoleon Hill
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
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
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
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)
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
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
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
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
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - - Avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.Francesco Petrarch
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.Jesse Louis Jackson
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.
