Peace Quotes
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.Dwight D Eisenhowe
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.Gersonides
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".
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
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
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.Albert Einstein
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.Samuel Adams
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.Author Unknown
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
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.Mark Twain
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
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me There is nothing between.Mother Theresa
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
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
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
This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
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
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.Virginia Woolf
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.Albert Einstein
Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.Julia Louise Woodruff
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
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
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
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.Catherine de Hueck Doherty, O Magazine, October 2002
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.Helen Kelle
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.Caitlin Matthews
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
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.
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
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
