Peace Quotes

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
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
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
Albert einstein - all of us who are concerned for peace and triumph...
Phylos the tibetan - this is before the coming of a new heaven and a...
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 more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
George S. Patton
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Author Unknown
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars, " 1964
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.
Author Unknown
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Sir James Glove
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
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Bhagavad gita - the self - controlled soul, who moves amongst...
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luthe
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitze
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
Walt Whitman
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Nikita Khrushchev
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
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
Susan Partnow
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 Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Flavius Vegetius Renatus
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.
Dwight Eisenhowe
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
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