Peace Quotes
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace.Psalm 3711 TLB Bible
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - - we can do it.Roosevelt, Eleano
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
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
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
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
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.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.Lester Bowles Pearson
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
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 take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.Joseph Conrad
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455
All we are saying is give peace a chance.John Lennon
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
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.Dwight D Eisenhowe
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.Benjamin Franklin
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?Hermocrates of Syracuse
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
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
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.Henry Kissinge
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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
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
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy
I define joy as a sustained sense of well - Being and internal peace - A connection to what matters.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.George C. Marshall
To secure peace is to prepare for war.Carl von Clausewitz
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
