Peace Quotes

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X
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
We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.
Paul Liu
Paul tabori, _the natural science of stupidity_. (new york: chiltoncompany, 1960), p. 104. - modern war has decimated many a country; but it...
Patanjali - peace can be reached through meditation on the...
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
John Russell
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Nikita Khrushchev
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.
Mother Theresa
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.
James E. Faust
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
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.
Eve Denise Curie
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
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
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walke
Working in the garden... gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
Ruth Stout
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
Cornelius Tacitus
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
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
Dalai lama, the times (1999) - compassion and love are not mere luxuries. as the...
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
Susan Partnow
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars, " 1964
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
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 sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
Fridjof Nansen
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
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
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
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.
The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV
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
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero
This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .
Phylos the Tibetan
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
Aldous Huxley
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell, (attributed)
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus